Commercial Metals Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:CMC)

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Commercial Metals in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" CMC shares.
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6 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for Commercial Metals' shares. Their CMC share price targets range from $48.00 to $63.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $55.17 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 18.9% from the stock's current price.
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Commercial Metals' stock was trading at $48.30 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, CMC shares have decreased by 4.0% and is now trading at $46.39.
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Commercial Metals saw a decline in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,170,000 shares, a decline of 5.7% from the October 31st total of 3,360,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,050,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.0 days. Currently, 2.7% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, January 8th 2024.
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Commercial Metals (NYSE:CMC) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 12th. The basic materials company reported $1.69 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.77 by $0.08. The basic materials company had revenue of $2.21 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.15 billion. Commercial Metals had a net margin of 9.77% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 22.62%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 8.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $2.45 earnings per share.

Commercial Metals announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, October 10th. Investors of record on Thursday, October 26th will be paid a dividend of $0.16 per share on Thursday, November 9th. This represents a $0.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.38%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, October 25th.
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Commercial Metals (NYSE:CMC) pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.44%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 2 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 8.83%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CMC will have a dividend payout ratio of 10.22% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Commercial Metals (NYSE:CMC) stock in their portfolio include SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF (XME), VanEck Steel ETF (SLX), Direxion Daily Metals & Mining Bull 2X Shares (MNM), Cambria Value and Momentum ETF (VAMO), First Trust Bloomberg Inflation Sensitive Equity ETF (FTIF), Invesco Dorsey Wright Basic Materials Momentum ETF (PYZ), Invesco S&P MidCap Value with Momentum ETF (XMVM) and Invesco S&P MidCap Momentum ETF (XMMO).

38 employees have rated Commercial Metals Chief Executive Officer Barbara R. Smith on Glassdoor.com. Barbara R. Smith has an approval rating of 91% among the company's employees. This puts Barbara R. Smith in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Commercial Metals investors own include Bank of America (BAC), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Ford Motor (F), Intel (INTC), AbbVie (ABBV), NVIDIA (NVDA), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Verizon Communications (VZ), Alibaba Group (BABA) and Micron Technology (MU).

Commercial Metals' stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (4.84%), Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. (2.14%), Northern Trust Corp (1.62%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.44%), Invesco Ltd. (1.29%) and Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (1.19%). Insiders that own company stock include Barbara Smith, Gary E Mccullough, John R Mcpherson, Lindsay L Sloan, Peter R Matt, Stephen William Simpson, Tracy L Porter and Ty L Garrison.
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