NYSE:EAFGrafTech International Stock Price, Forecast & News

GrafTech International's stock was trading at $6.94 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, EAF stock has increased by 14.1% and is now trading at $7.92. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for GrafTech International in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for GrafTech International.

GrafTech International is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July 29th 2020. View our earnings forecast for GrafTech International.

GrafTech International Ltd (NYSE:EAF) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May, 6th. The company reported $0.45 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.56 by $0.11. The company earned $318.65 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $353 million. GrafTech International had a negative return on equity of 99.61% and a net margin of 40.96%. GrafTech International's revenue for the quarter was down 32.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.68 earnings per share. View GrafTech International's earnings history.

GrafTech International declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, May 7th. Stockholders of record on Friday, May 29th will be given a dividend of $0.01 per share on Tuesday, June 30th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.51%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 28th. View GrafTech International's dividend history.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month target prices for GrafTech International's shares. Their forecasts range from $7.00 to $15.00. On average, they expect GrafTech International's stock price to reach $12.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 51.5% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for GrafTech International.

Media coverage about EAF stock has trended very negative on Thursday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. GrafTech International earned a daily sentiment score of -3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutGrafTech International.

GrafTech International saw a decrease in short interest during the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 13,240,000 shares, a decrease of 6.0% from the April 15th total of 14,090,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,490,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.3 days. Currently, 19.1% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View GrafTech International's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to GrafTech International include Woodward, Inc.Common Stock (WWD), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), Plug Power (PLUG), ITM Power (ITMPF), Bloom Energy (BE), Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), Thermon Group (THR), Ideal Power (IPWR), SCI Engineered Materials (SCIA) and China Carbon Graphite Group (CHGI). View all competitors.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other GrafTech International investors own include Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), Micron Technology (MU), Arbutus Biopharma (ABUS), Enbridge (ENB), Carnival (CCL), IBM (IBM), Altria Group (MO), NVIDIA (NVDA), AT&T (T) and Twitter (TWTR).

(EAF) raised $850 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Thursday, April 19th 2018. The company issued 37,800,000 shares at $21.00-$24.00 per share. J.P. Morgan and Credit Suisse acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Citigroup, RBC Capital Markets, HSBC, BMO Capital MarketsBNP PARIBAS, CIBC Capital Markets and National Bank Financial were co-managers.

GrafTech International trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "EAF."

GrafTech International's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Yacktman Asset Management LP (1.96%), BlackRock Inc. (0.95%), AQR Capital Management LLC (0.75%), Schroder Investment Management Group (0.60%), Raymond James & Associates (0.56%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.43%). Company insiders that own GrafTech International stock include Anthony R Taccone and Gp Ltd Bcp. View institutional ownership trends for GrafTech International.

EAF stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Morgan Stanley, AQR Capital Management LLC, Reinhart Partners Inc., Loomis Sayles & Co. L P, Victory Capital Management Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, and BlackRock Inc.. View insider buying and selling activity for GrafTech International.

EAF stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Yacktman Asset Management LP, Raymond James & Associates, Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo & Co. LLC, ZWJ Investment Counsel Inc., Investment Counselors of Maryland LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Mondrian Investment Partners LTD, and Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V.. View insider buying and selling activity for GrafTech International.

Shares of EAF 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 EAF stock can currently be purchased for approximately $7.92.

GrafTech International has a market capitalization of $2.12 billion and generates $1.79 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $744.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.58 on an earnings per share basis. GrafTech International employs 1,346 workers across the globe.

The official website for GrafTech International is www.graftech.com.

GrafTech International's mailing address is 982 KEYNOTE CIRCLE, BROOKLYN HEIGHTS OH, 44131. The company can be reached via phone at 216-676-2000 or via email at [email protected]