NYSE:HUNHuntsman Stock Price, Forecast & News

Huntsman's stock was trading at $16.16 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, HUN stock has increased by 25.1% and is now trading at $20.22. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

19 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Huntsman in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings, 10 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Huntsman.

Huntsman is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 4th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Huntsman.

Huntsman Co. (NYSE:HUN) announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, May, 1st. The basic materials company reported $0.29 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.19 by $0.10. The basic materials company had revenue of $1.59 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.52 billion. Huntsman had a net margin of 16.10% and a return on equity of 12.72%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 21.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.46 earnings per share. View Huntsman's earnings history.

Huntsman announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 5th. Investors of record on Friday, May 15th will be given a dividend of $0.1625 per share on Tuesday, June 30th. This represents a $0.65 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.21%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, June 12th. View Huntsman's dividend history.

19 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Huntsman's stock. Their forecasts range from $14.00 to $30.00. On average, they anticipate Huntsman's share price to reach $20.37 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 0.7% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Huntsman.

Press coverage about HUN stock has trended extremely negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group rates 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 five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Huntsman earned a news sentiment score of -5.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the basic materials company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View the latest news aboutHuntsman.

Huntsman saw a decline in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,780,000 shares, a decline of 20.6% from the April 30th total of 4,760,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,670,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.4 days. Currently, 1.9% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Huntsman's Current Options Chain.

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

Huntsman's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.22%), Yacktman Asset Management LP (3.01%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (1.80%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.80%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.61%) and State Street Corp (1.43%). Company insiders that own Huntsman stock include Anthony P Hankins, David M Stryker, Peter R Huntsman, Robert Wade Rogers, Rohit Aggarwal, Ronald W Gerrard, Scott J Wright and Sean Douglas. View institutional ownership trends for Huntsman.

HUN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including AJO LP, Invesco Ltd., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, AQR Capital Management LLC, Two Sigma Advisers LP, Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, Waddell & Reed Financial Inc., and BlackRock Inc.. View insider buying and selling activity for Huntsman.

HUN stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Yacktman Asset Management LP, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Deprince Race & Zollo Inc., Wells Fargo & Company MN, 1832 Asset Management L.P., Clearbridge Investments LLC, 1832 Asset Management L.P., and DNB Asset Management AS. Company insiders that have bought Huntsman stock in the last two years include Anthony P Hankins, David M Stryker, Peter R Huntsman, Robert Wade Rogers, Scott J Wright, and Sean Douglas. View insider buying and selling activity for Huntsman.

Shares of HUN 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 HUN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $20.22.

Huntsman has a market capitalization of $4.46 billion and generates $6.80 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $562 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.53 on an earnings per share basis. Huntsman employs 10,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Huntsman is www.huntsman.com.

Huntsman's mailing address is 10003 Woodloch Forest Drive, The Woodlands TX, 77380. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at 281-719-6000 or via email at [email protected]