NewMarket Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:NEU)

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

NewMarket announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 1st. Stockholders of record on Monday, September 16th will be paid a dividend of $1.90 per share on Tuesday, October 1st. This represents a $7.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.64%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, September 13th. This is a boost from NewMarket's previous quarterly dividend of $1.75. View NewMarket's Dividend History.

NewMarket Co. (NYSE:NEU) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July, 31st. The specialty chemicals company reported $6.63 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $5.16 by $1.47. The specialty chemicals company had revenue of $563.42 million for the quarter. NewMarket had a return on equity of 47.25% and a net margin of 11.70%. View NewMarket's Earnings History.

NewMarket is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 23rd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for NewMarket.

NewMarket will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, October 23rd 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 twelve-month price objectives for NewMarket's shares. Their forecasts range from $420.00 to $420.00. On average, they expect NewMarket's stock price to reach $420.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 9.6%. 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 negative on Sunday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. NewMarket earned a news impact score of -2.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news 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 next few days. View News Stories for NewMarket.

NewMarket saw a decrease in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 204,200 shares, a decrease of 25.7% from the August 30th total of 274,900 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 82,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.5 days. Approximately 2.4% of the company's stock are sold short. View NewMarket's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to NewMarket include International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), Westlake Chemical (WLK), Braskem (BRKMY), Sensient Technologies (SXT), Methanex (MEOH), Codexis (CDXS), Westlake Chemical Partners (WLKP), Renewable Energy Group (REGI), FutureFuel (FF), REX American Resources (REX), Green Plains (GPRE), Amyris (AMRS), Green Plains Partners (GPP), Solarwindow Technologies (WNDW) and Sino United Worldwide Consolidated (SUIC).

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), Entegris (ENTG), Alphabet (GOOG), Lam Research (LRCX), Old National Bancorp (ONB), Sanderson Farms (SAFM), Texas Instruments (TXN) and Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA).

NewMarket's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.02%), First Hawaiian Bank (0.02%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.01%). Company insiders that own NewMarket stock include 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 Pacer Advisors Inc. and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. Company insiders that have sold NewMarket company stock in the last year include 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 First Hawaiian Bank. 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 $464.78.

NewMarket has a market capitalization of $5.20 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]