NYSE:NEU - NewMarket Stock Price, Forecast & News

NewMarket trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "NEU."

NewMarket announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 24th. Stockholders of record on Monday, December 16th will be paid a dividend of $1.90 per share on Thursday, January 2nd. This represents a $7.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.68%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 13th. View NewMarket's Dividend History.

NewMarket Co. (NYSE:NEU) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The specialty chemicals company reported $6.06 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $5.93 by $0.13. The specialty chemicals company earned $555.82 million during the quarter. NewMarket had a return on equity of 47.54% and a net margin of 12.17%. View NewMarket's Earnings History.

NewMarket is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, February 3rd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for NewMarket.

NewMarket will be holding an earnings conference call on Monday, February 3rd at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

1 brokers have issued 1 year price targets for NewMarket's shares. Their forecasts range from $420.00 to $420.00. On average, they expect NewMarket's share price to reach $420.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.2%. View Analyst Price Targets for NewMarket.

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

News headlines about NEU stock have been trending extremely negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. NewMarket earned a daily sentiment score of -4.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the specialty chemicals company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for NewMarket.

NewMarket saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 196,700 shares, an increase of 12.9% from the December 15th total of 174,300 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 44,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.5 days. Approximately 2.3% of the shares of the company are sold short. View NewMarket's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to NewMarket include Ecolab (ECL), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), Celanese (CE), RPM International (RPM), Albemarle (ALB), W. R. Grace & Co (GRA), Ashland Global (ASH), Balchem (BCPC), Quaker Chemical (KWR), Sensient Technologies (SXT), PolyOne (POL), Innospec (IOSP), HB Fuller (FUL) and Stepan (SCL).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other NewMarket investors own include Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Caterpillar (CAT), Carnival (CCL), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Lam Research (LRCX), PepsiCo (PEP) and Air Lease (AL).

NewMarket's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.11%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.05%), State of Michigan Retirement System (0.02%), Convergence Investment Partners LLC (0.02%), 6 Meridian (0.01%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.01%). Company insiders that own NewMarket stock include Bruce R Hazelgrove III, Cameron D Warner, James E Rogers and Thomas E Gottwald. View Institutional Ownership Trends for NewMarket.

NEU stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, New York State Teachers Retirement System, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Atlantic Union Bankshares Corp. Company insiders that have sold NewMarket company stock in the last year include Bruce R Hazelgrove III, James E Rogers and Thomas E Gottwald. View Insider Buying and Selling for NewMarket.

NEU stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, State of Michigan Retirement System, Acima Private Wealth LLC, 6 Meridian and Convergence Investment Partners LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for NewMarket.

Shares of NEU 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 NEU stock can currently be purchased for approximately $452.52.

NewMarket has a market capitalization of $5.06 billion and generates $2.29 billion in revenue each year. The specialty chemicals company earns $234.73 million in net income (profit) each year or $20.34 on an earnings per share basis. NewMarket employs 2,089 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About NewMarket.

The official website for NewMarket is http://www.newmarket.com/.

NewMarket's mailing address is 330 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, RICHMOND VA, 23219. The specialty chemicals company can be reached via phone at 804-788-5000 or via email at [email protected]