Minerals Technologies (MTX) Stock Forecast, Price & News

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Minerals Technologies in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" MTX shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in MTX, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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3 Wall Street research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Minerals Technologies' stock. Their MTX share price forecasts range from $70.00 to $70.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $70.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 24.8% from the stock's current price.
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Minerals Technologies' stock was trading at $60.72 at the start of the year. Since then, MTX shares have decreased by 7.6% and is now trading at $56.11.
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Minerals Technologies saw a decline in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 279,800 shares, a decline of 17.3% from the April 30th total of 338,200 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 159,900 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.7 days. Approximately 0.9% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 27th 2023.
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Minerals Technologies Inc. (NYSE:MTX) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April, 27th. The basic materials company reported $1.14 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.05 by $0.09. The basic materials company earned $546 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $527.73 million. Minerals Technologies had a net margin of 5.36% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.53%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 5.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $1.36 earnings per share.

Minerals Technologies declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 16th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, June 1st will be given a dividend of $0.05 per share on Thursday, June 15th. This represents a $0.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.36%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, May 31st.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Minerals Technologies (NYSE:MTX) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P SmallCap Materials ETF (PSCM), Qraft AI-Enhanced Next Value ETF (NVQ), First Trust Small Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund (FYT), SPDR S&P 600 Small Cap Value ETF (SLYV), iShares US Small Cap Value Factor ETF (SVAL), iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF (IJS), Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF (VIOV) and Dimensional US Small Cap Value ETF (DFSV).

Minerals Technologies (NYSE:MTX) pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.34%. The dividend payout ratio is 5.67%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MTX will have a dividend payout ratio of 3.34% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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4 employees have rated Minerals Technologies Chief Executive Officer ​Douglas T. Dietrich on Glassdoor.com. ​Douglas T. Dietrich has an approval rating of 29% among the company's employees. This puts ​Douglas T. Dietrich in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Minerals Technologies trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "MTX."

Minerals Technologies' stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (16.24%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (7.19%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (5.85%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (4.72%), State Street Corp (3.80%) and Franklin Resources Inc. (3.48%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew M Jones, Brett Argirakis, Dj Monagle III, Douglas T Dietrich, Douglas W Mayger, Jonathan J Hastings, Michael Cipolla, Rocky Motwani and Thomas J Meek.
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Shares of MTX 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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One share of MTX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $56.11.

Minerals Technologies (NYSE:MTX) has a market capitalization of $1.83 billion and generates $2.13 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $122.20 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.53 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 4,070 workers across the globe.

Minerals Technologies' mailing address is 622 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK NY, 10017. The official website for the company is www.mineralstech.com. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at (212) 878-1800 or via fax at 212-878-1802.