NYSE:CF - CF Industries Stock Price, Forecast & News

CF Industries trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CF."

CF Industries declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 9th. Shareholders of record on Friday, November 15th will be given a dividend of $0.30 per share on Friday, November 29th. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.02%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 14th. View CF Industries' Dividend History.

CF Industries announced that its board has approved a stock repurchase plan on Wednesday, August 1st 2018, which authorizes the company to repurchase $500,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to buy up to 4.8% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are generally an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:CF) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 30th. The basic materials company reported $0.29 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.35 by $0.06. The basic materials company had revenue of $1.04 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.06 billion. CF Industries had a return on equity of 7.98% and a net margin of 10.42%. The company's quarterly revenue was down .2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.13 earnings per share. View CF Industries' Earnings History.

CF Industries is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 12th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for CF Industries.

15 brokerages have issued 12-month price objectives for CF Industries' stock. Their forecasts range from $37.00 to $66.00. On average, they anticipate CF Industries' stock price to reach $50.93 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 28.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for CF Industries.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for CF Industries in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 8 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for CF Industries.

News articles about CF stock have trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. CF Industries earned a media sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the basic materials company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for CF Industries.

CF Industries saw a decline in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 2,300,000 shares, a decline of 14.8% from the December 31st total of 2,700,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,970,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.2 days. Currently, 1.1% of the company's stock are short sold. View CF Industries' Current Options Chain.

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CF Industries' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Scout Investments Inc. (0.18%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.15%), Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.12%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.04%), DNB Asset Management AS (0.03%) and Welch & Forbes LLC (0.02%). Company insiders that own CF Industries stock include Adam L Hall, Bert A Frost, Dennis P Kelleher, Douglas C Barnard, Richard A Hoker, Rosemary L O'brien and Stephen A Furbacher. View Institutional Ownership Trends for CF Industries.

CF stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Manning & Napier Group LLC, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Scout Investments Inc., Welch & Forbes LLC, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and First Hawaiian Bank. Company insiders that have sold CF Industries company stock in the last year include Bert A Frost, Dennis P Kelleher, Douglas C Barnard, Richard A Hoker and Stephen A Furbacher. View Insider Buying and Selling for CF Industries.

CF stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Alpine Global Management LLC, DNB Asset Management AS, Strs Ohio, Sciencast Management LP, KG&L Capital Management LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, BKD Wealth Advisors LLC and Allred Capital Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for CF Industries.

Shares of CF can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CF stock can currently be purchased for approximately $39.75.

CF Industries has a market capitalization of $8.64 billion and generates $4.43 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $290 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.24 on an earnings per share basis. CF Industries employs 3,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About CF Industries.

The official website for CF Industries is http://www.cfindustries.com/.

CF Industries' mailing address is 4 PARKWAY NORTH SUITE 400, DEERFIELD IL, 60015. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at 847-405-2400 or via email at [email protected]