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 1.80%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 13th. View NewMarket's Dividend History.

NewMarket Co. (NYSE:NEU) posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, February, 3rd. The specialty chemicals company reported $4.48 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. The specialty chemicals company had revenue of $534.45 million for the quarter. NewMarket had a return on equity of 41.69% and a net margin of 11.61%. View NewMarket's Earnings History.

NewMarket is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 22nd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for NewMarket.

1 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives 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 0.5%. 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.

Press coverage about NEU stock has trended neutral on Tuesday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. NewMarket earned a news sentiment score of 0.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the specialty chemicals company a news buzz of 9.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for NewMarket.

NewMarket saw a increase in short interest in January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 196,700 shares, an increase of 12.9% from the December 31st total of 174,300 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 43,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.6 days. Currently, 2.3% of the company's shares 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), Ashland Global (ASH), W. R. Grace & Co (GRA), Balchem (BCPC), Quaker Chemical (KWR), PolyOne (POL), HB Fuller (FUL), Sensient Technologies (SXT), Innospec (IOSP) 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 many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Bank of America Corp DE (6.79%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (2.53%), State Street Corp (1.68%), AQR Capital Management LLC (1.49%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.95%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (0.87%). 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 Renaissance Technologies LLC, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc., AJO LP, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Janus Henderson Group PLC, California Public Employees Retirement System and Cubist Systematic Strategies LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for NewMarket.

NEU stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including AQR Capital Management LLC, Bank of America Corp DE, Madison Asset Management LLC, FMR LLC, Man Group plc, Citigroup Inc., First Quadrant L P CA and UBS Group AG. 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 $422.10.

NewMarket has a market capitalization of $4.72 billion and generates $2.19 billion in revenue each year. The specialty chemicals company earns $254.29 million in net income (profit) each year or $22.73 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]