Huntsman Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:HUN)

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

Huntsman announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 8th. Stockholders of record on Friday, September 13th will be given a dividend of $0.1625 per share on Monday, September 30th. This represents a $0.65 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.80%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 12th. View Huntsman's Dividend History.

Huntsman declared that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback plan on Wednesday, May 23rd 2018, which authorizes the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 13.1% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are generally an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Huntsman Co. (NYSE:HUN) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, July, 30th. The basic materials company reported $0.63 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.65 by $0.02. The basic materials company had revenue of $2.19 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.28 billion. Huntsman had a positive return on equity of 18.68% and a negative net margin of 1.37%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 8.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company posted $1.01 earnings per share. View Huntsman's Earnings History.

Huntsman is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, October 25th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Huntsman.

Huntsman will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, October 25th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

12 brokerages have issued 12-month price objectives for Huntsman's shares. Their predictions range from $19.00 to $40.00. On average, they expect Huntsman's share price to reach $27.17 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 16.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Huntsman.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Huntsman in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Huntsman.

News coverage about HUN stock has been trending somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog 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. Huntsman earned a news sentiment score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the basic materials company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Huntsman.

Huntsman saw a drop in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 3,520,000 shares, a drop of 11.6% from the August 30th total of 3,980,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,370,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.5 days. Currently, 1.7% of the company's stock are short sold. View Huntsman's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Huntsman investors own include Micron Technology (MU), Intel (INTC), AT&T (T), General Electric (GE), Ford Motor (F), Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics (BCLI), Alibaba Group (BABA), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Bank of America (BAC).

Huntsman's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Scout Investments Inc. (0.49%), DNB Asset Management AS (0.35%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.20%), Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co. (0.13%), Smith Graham & Co. Investment Advisors LP (0.10%) and Sonora Investment Management LLC (0.04%). Company insiders that own Huntsman stock include Alvin V Shoemaker, Anthony P Hankins, Corp Huntsman, David M Stryker, J Kimo Esplin, Jon M Huntsman, Mary C Beckerle, Monte G Edlund, Peter R Huntsman, Rohit Aggarwal, 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 Brookstone Capital Management, DNB Asset Management AS, NEXT Financial Group Inc, Pacer Advisors Inc., Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Virginia National Bank and Sonora Investment Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Huntsman.

HUN stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co., Meeder Asset Management Inc., Scout Investments Inc., Oakbrook Investments LLC, Cerebellum GP LLC, Smith Graham & Co. Investment Advisors LP and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank . Company insiders that have bought Huntsman stock in the last two years include David M Stryker, Peter R Huntsman, Scott J Wright and Sean Douglas. View Insider Buying and Selling 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 $23.24.

Huntsman has a market capitalization of $5.33 billion and generates $9.38 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $337 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.34 on an earnings per share basis. Huntsman employs 10,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Huntsman.

The official website for Huntsman is http://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]