Mosaic Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:MOS)

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mosaic in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 9 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" MOS shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in MOS, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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15 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for Mosaic's stock. Their MOS share price targets range from $35.00 to $70.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $45.35 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 22.9% from the stock's current price.
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Mosaic's stock was trading at $43.87 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, MOS shares have decreased by 15.9% and is now trading at $36.90.
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Mosaic saw a decline in short interest during the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 3,540,000 shares, a decline of 8.1% from the October 15th total of 3,850,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 3,550,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.0 days. Approximately 1.1% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 28th 2024.
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The Mosaic Company (NYSE:MOS) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November, 7th. The basic materials company reported $0.68 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.80 by $0.12. The basic materials company earned $3.55 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.18 billion. Mosaic had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 12.71% and a net margin of 8.80%. The firm's revenue was down 33.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $3.22 earnings per share.
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Mosaic announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 18th. Investors of record on Thursday, December 7th will be given a dividend of $0.20 per share on Thursday, December 21st. This represents a $0.80 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.17%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 6th.
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Mosaic (NYSE:MOS) pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.20%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 2 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 20.51%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MOS will have a dividend payout ratio of 25.00% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Mosaic (NYSE:MOS) stock in their portfolio include Subversive Food Security ETF (KCAL), First Trust Materials AlphaDEX Fund (FXZ), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Materials ETF (RSPM), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Materials ETF (RTM), iShares Emergent Food and AgTech Multisector ETF (IVEG), VictoryShares Free Cash Flow ETF (VFLO), VanEck Agribusiness ETF (MOO) and First Trust Indxx Global Agriculture ETF (FTAG).

Mosaic declared that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback program on Monday, August 1st 2022, which authorizes the company to repurchase $2,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 10.8% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are usually an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

61 employees have rated Mosaic Chief Executive Officer Joc O’Rourke on Glassdoor.com. Joc O’Rourke has an approval rating of 54% among the company's employees. This puts Joc O’Rourke in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Mosaic investors own include Bank of America (BAC), Intel (INTC), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Micron Technology (MU), AT&T (T), General Electric (GE), Walt Disney (DIS), NVIDIA (NVDA), QUALCOMM (QCOM) and Tesla (TSLA).

Mosaic's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Invesco Ltd. (2.65%), Northern Trust Corp (1.84%), Morgan Stanley (1.61%), Ameriprise Financial Inc. (1.00%), AQR Capital Management LLC (0.98%) and Deutsche Bank AG (0.92%). Insiders that own company stock include Corrine D Ricard, Denise C Johnson, Gregory L Ebel, James Calvin O'rourke, Mark J Isaacson, SA Vale and Walter F Precourt III.
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Shares of MOS stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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