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. Shareholders 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 yield of 1.91%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 13th. View NewMarket's Dividend History.

NewMarket Co. (NYSE:NEU) announced its quarterly earnings results 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 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for NewMarket's shares. 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 a possible upside of 5.3% from the stock's current price. 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 been trending very negative on Friday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. NewMarket earned a news sentiment score of -3.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the specialty chemicals company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media 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 decline in short interest in February. As of February 14th, there was short interest totalling 183,500 shares, a decline of 5.4% from the January 30th total of 194,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 42,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.3 days. Approximately 2.1% of the company's stock are short sold. 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), PolyOne (POL), Sensient Technologies (SXT), HB Fuller (FUL), 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 bought 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 $398.90.

NewMarket has a market capitalization of $4.46 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]