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. Investors 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.58%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, December 13th. View NewMarket's Dividend History.

NewMarket Co. (NYSE:NEU) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The specialty chemicals company reported $6.06 earnings per share for the quarter, topping 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 Wednesday, February 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for NewMarket.

1 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for NewMarket's stock. Their forecasts range from $420.00 to $420.00. On average, they anticipate NewMarket's share price to reach $420.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 12.5%. 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.

Media headlines about NEU stock have been trending somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring 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 nearest to five being the most favorable. NewMarket earned a media sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the specialty chemicals company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for NewMarket.

NewMarket saw a drop in short interest during the month of November. As of November 29th, there was short interest totalling 169,700 shares, a drop of 12.5% from the November 14th total of 193,900 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 55,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.1 days. Approximately 2.0% of the shares of the company are short sold. View NewMarket's Current Options Chain.

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

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other NewMarket investors own include Caterpillar (CAT), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), Lam Research (LRCX), PepsiCo (PEP), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Air Lease (AL), American Express (AXP), Colgate-Palmolive (CL) and Cummins (CMI).

NewMarket's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (1.66%), Squarepoint Ops LLC (0.31%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.29%), Millennium Management LLC (0.29%), JLB & Associates Inc. (0.23%) and California Public Employees Retirement System (0.21%). 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 State Street Corp, Rhumbline Advisers, Lowe Brockenbrough & Co. Inc., New York State Teachers Retirement System, Retirement Systems of Alabama, Brinker Capital Inc., Envestnet Asset Management Inc. and Janney Montgomery Scott LLC. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Squarepoint Ops LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Millennium Management LLC, W.E. Donoghue & Co. LLC, SG Americas Securities LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, California Public Employees Retirement System and Man Group plc. 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 $479.90.

NewMarket has a market capitalization of $5.37 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]