FMC - FMC Stock Forecast, Price & News

13 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for FMC in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" FMC shares.
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13 brokers have issued 12-month price objectives for FMC's shares. Their FMC share price forecasts range from $112.00 to $149.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $138.82 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 9.0% from the stock's current price.
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FMC's stock was trading at $124.80 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, FMC stock has increased by 2.1% and is now trading at $127.39.
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FMC saw a decline in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,480,000 shares, a decline of 25.6% from the December 31st total of 1,990,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 764,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.9 days. Currently, 1.2% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 7th 2023.
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FMC will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, February 8th at 9:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 226-828-7578 with passcode "464793".

FMC Co. (NYSE:FMC) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, November, 2nd. The basic materials company reported $1.43 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.32 by $0.11. The basic materials company earned $1.19 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.17 billion. FMC had a net margin of 11.72% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 29.34%. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.22 EPS.
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FMC announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, December 14th. Investors of record on Friday, December 30th will be paid a dividend of $0.58 per share on Thursday, January 19th. This represents a $2.32 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.82%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 29th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.53.
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FMC (NYSE:FMC) pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.75%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 5 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 44.87%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, FMC will have a dividend payout ratio of 27.82% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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FMC declared that its board has approved a stock buyback program on Tuesday, February 8th 2022, which authorizes the company to buyback $1,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 7.1% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are generally an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

FMC updated its fourth quarter 2022 earnings guidance on Tuesday, November, 8th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.05-$2.55 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $2.48. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.42 billion-$1.62 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.48 billion.

116 employees have rated FMC Chief Executive Officer Pierre Brondeau on Glassdoor.com. Pierre Brondeau has an approval rating of 93% among the company's employees. This puts Pierre Brondeau in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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

FMC's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.97%), Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. (0.48%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.33%), Hardman Johnston Global Advisors LLC (0.20%), Strs Ohio (0.15%) and New York State Common Retirement Fund (0.15%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew D Sandifer, Andrew D Sandifer, Carol Anthony Davidson, Eduardo E Cordeiro, Mark Douglas, Michael Finian Reilly, Nicholas Pfeiffer and Pierre R Brondeau.
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One share of FMC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $127.39.

FMC (NYSE:FMC) has a market capitalization of $16.05 billion and generates $5.05 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $736.50 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.17 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 6,400 workers across the globe.

FMC's mailing address is 2929 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA PA, 19104. The official website for the company is www.fmc.com. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at (215) 299-6000, via email at michael.wherley@fmc.com, or via fax at 215-299-5998.