NYSE:KWR - Quaker Chemical Stock Price, Forecast & News

Quaker Chemical trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "KWR."

Quaker Chemical declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, November 19th. Stockholders of record on Friday, January 17th will be paid a dividend of $0.385 per share on Friday, January 31st. This represents a $1.54 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.91%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, January 16th. View Quaker Chemical's Dividend History.

Quaker Chemical Corp (NYSE:KWR) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November, 12th. The specialty chemicals company reported $1.56 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.40 by $0.16. The specialty chemicals company had revenue of $325.10 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $324.93 million. Quaker Chemical had a net margin of 2.54% and a return on equity of 13.39%. Quaker Chemical's revenue was up 46.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $1.60 earnings per share. View Quaker Chemical's Earnings History.

Quaker Chemical is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 27th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Quaker Chemical.

4 equities research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Quaker Chemical's shares. Their forecasts range from $153.00 to $204.00. On average, they expect Quaker Chemical's share price to reach $171.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Quaker Chemical.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Quaker Chemical 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 Quaker Chemical.

Media stories about KWR stock have been trending extremely negative on Saturday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Quaker Chemical earned a media sentiment score of -5.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the specialty chemicals company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Quaker Chemical.

Quaker Chemical saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,260,000 shares, an increase of 8.6% from the December 15th total of 1,160,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 112,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 11.2 days. Currently, 9.6% of the company's stock are sold short. View Quaker Chemical's Current Options Chain.

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Quaker Chemical's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.15%), Davis R M Inc. (0.13%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.06%), Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.03%), New England Research & Management Inc. (0.01%) and Park National Corp OH (0.01%). Company insiders that own Quaker Chemical stock include (Steve) Brockhurst Stephen, Adrian Steeples, D Jeffry Benoliel, Dieter Laininger, Donald R Caldwell, Jan Nieman, Jeffry D Frisby, Joseph A Berquist, Joseph F Matrange, L Wilbert Platzer, Mark Douglas, Michael F Barry, Ronald S Ettinger and Shane Hostetter. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Quaker Chemical.

KWR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including New York State Teachers Retirement System, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank , New England Research & Management Inc., Louisiana State Employees Retirement System and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. Company insiders that have sold Quaker Chemical company stock in the last year include Donald R Caldwell, Michael F Barry and Shane Hostetter. View Insider Buying and Selling for Quaker Chemical.

KWR stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Davis R M Inc. and Park National Corp OH. View Insider Buying and Selling for Quaker Chemical.

Shares of KWR 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 KWR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $169.61.

Quaker Chemical has a market capitalization of $3.01 billion and generates $867.52 million in revenue each year. The specialty chemicals company earns $59.47 million in net income (profit) each year or $6.04 on an earnings per share basis. Quaker Chemical employs 2,160 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Quaker Chemical.

The official website for Quaker Chemical is http://www.quakerchem.com/.

Quaker Chemical's mailing address is ONE QUAKER PARK 901 E. HECTOR STREET, CONSHOHOCKEN PA, 19428. The specialty chemicals company can be reached via phone at 610-832-4000 or via email at [email protected]