NYSE:OLN - Olin Stock Price, Price Target & More

Olin trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "OLN."

Olin declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, April 26th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, May 10th will be given a dividend of $0.20 per share on Monday, June 11th. This represents a $0.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.64%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, May 9th. View Olin's Dividend History.

Olin announced that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback plan on Tuesday, May 1st 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $500,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 9.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are generally an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Olin Co. (NYSE:OLN) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, May, 1st. The specialty chemicals company reported $0.15 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.03. The specialty chemicals company had revenue of $1.71 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.60 billion. Olin had a return on equity of 5.81% and a net margin of 8.69%. View Olin's Earnings History.

Olin is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, July, 30th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Olin.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Olin's stock. Their forecasts range from $27.79 to $46.00. On average, they anticipate Olin's share price to reach $36.8488 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Olin.

Olin saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totalling 5,080,561 shares, an increase of 61.1% from the April 30th total of 3,154,076 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,437,092 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.1 days. Approximately 3.1% of the shares of the company are short sold.

Some companies that are related to Olin include DSM (RDSMY), ASAHI KASEI Cor/ADR (AHKSY), FMC (FMC), JOHNSON MATTHEY/S (JMPLY), Chemours (CC), Huntsman (HUN), W. R. Grace & Co (GRA), Ashland Global (ASH), Univar (UNVR), Ingevity (NGVT), Balchem (BCPC), PQ Group (PQG), GCP Applied Technologies (GCP), Innospec (IOSP) and KMG Chemicals (KMG).

News stories about OLN stock have been trending somewhat positive on Monday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Olin earned a news sentiment score of 0.12 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the specialty chemicals company an impact score of 46.55 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days.

Olin's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (11.03%), Iridian Asset Management LLC CT (4.45%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.91%), Northern Trust Corp (0.79%), Prudential Financial Inc. (0.79%) and Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. (0.65%). Company insiders that own Olin stock include C Robert Bunch, Dolores J Ennico, Donald W Bogus, John E Fischer, John L Mcintosh, John Maurice Sampson, Pat D Dawson, Randall W Larrimore, Stephen C Curley and Thomas J Okeefe. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Olin.

OLN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Boston Partners, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Iridian Asset Management LLC CT, Principal Financial Group Inc., Principal Financial Group Inc., Stevens Capital Management LP, Federated Investors Inc. PA and Wells Fargo & Company MN. Company insiders that have sold Olin company stock in the last year include C Robert Bunch, Dolores J Ennico, John E Fischer, John L Mcintosh, John Maurice Sampson and Stephen C Curley. View Insider Buying and Selling for Olin.

OLN stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Rubric Capital Management LP, Manning & Napier Group LLC, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Mackay Shields LLC, Korea Investment CORP, Highbridge Capital Management LLC and Victory Capital Management Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Olin stock in the last two years include Donald W Bogus, Pat D Dawson and Randall W Larrimore. View Insider Buying and Selling for Olin.

Shares of OLN 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of OLN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $30.25.

Olin has a market capitalization of $5.08 billion and generates $6.27 billion in revenue each year. The specialty chemicals company earns $549.50 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.81 on an earnings per share basis. Olin employs 6,400 workers across the globe.

Olin's mailing address is 190 CARONDELET PLAZA SUITE 1530, CLAYTON MO, 63105. The specialty chemicals company can be reached via phone at 314-480-1400 or via email at [email protected]