Minerals Technologies - MTX Stock Forecast, Price & News

2 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Minerals Technologies in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" MTX shares.
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2 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for Minerals Technologies' stock. Their MTX share price forecasts range from $75.00 to $87.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $81.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 54.2% from the stock's current price.
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Minerals Technologies' stock was trading at $73.15 at the start of the year. Since then, MTX shares have decreased by 28.2% and is now trading at $52.53.
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Minerals Technologies saw a increase in short interest during the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 689,600 shares, an increase of 22.3% from the August 31st total of 564,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 274,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.5 days. Currently, 2.2% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 3rd 2022.
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Minerals Technologies Inc. (NYSE:MTX) released its earnings results on Thursday, July, 28th. The basic materials company reported $1.50 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.46 by $0.04. The basic materials company had revenue of $577 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $533.65 million. Minerals Technologies had a net margin of 8.46% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.44%. Minerals Technologies's quarterly revenue was up 26.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $1.29 EPS.

Minerals Technologies announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 20th. Investors of record on Friday, August 19th will be given a dividend of $0.05 per share on Friday, September 9th. This represents a $0.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.38%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 18th.
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Minerals Technologies (NYSE:MTX) pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.38%. The dividend payout ratio is 3.89%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MTX will have a dividend payout ratio of 3.29% 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."

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One share of MTX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $52.53.

Minerals Technologies (NYSE:MTX) has a market capitalization of $1.71 billion and generates $1.86 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $164.40 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.14 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 3,961 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.