NYSE:NEU - NewMarket Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

NewMarket declared 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 1.79%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 13th. View NewMarket's Dividend History.

NewMarket Co. (NYSE:NEU) issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, February, 3rd. The specialty chemicals company reported $4.48 earnings per share for the quarter. The specialty chemicals company had revenue of $534.45 million for the quarter. NewMarket had a net margin of 11.61% and a return on equity of 41.69%. 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 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for NewMarket's stock. Their forecasts range from $420.00 to $420.00. On average, they anticipate NewMarket's stock price to reach $420.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.0%. 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 coverage about NEU stock has trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive media 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 closest to five being the most favorable. NewMarket earned a media sentiment score of 0.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the specialty chemicals company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for NewMarket.

NewMarket saw a increase in short interest in the month of 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 trading volume of 43,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.6 days. Currently, 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), Albemarle (ALB), RPM International (RPM), Ashland Global (ASH), W. R. Grace & Co (GRA), Balchem (BCPC), Quaker Chemical (KWR), Innospec (IOSP), HB Fuller (FUL), PolyOne (POL), Sensient Technologies (SXT) 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 variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors 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. Company insiders that have sold NewMarket company stock in the last year include Bruce R Hazelgrove III 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 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 $424.34.

NewMarket has a market capitalization of $4.75 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]