PolyOne Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:POL)

PolyOne trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "POL."

PolyOne announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 10th. Investors of record on Friday, December 13th will be paid a dividend of $0.203 per share on Thursday, January 9th. This represents a $0.81 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.47%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 12th. This is an increase from PolyOne's previous quarterly dividend of $0.20. View PolyOne's Dividend History.

PolyOne Co. (NYSE:POL) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October, 22nd. The specialty chemicals company reported $0.44 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.43 by $0.01. The specialty chemicals company earned $705 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $721.91 million. PolyOne had a net margin of 4.03% and a return on equity of 33.07%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 3.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.62 earnings per share. View PolyOne's Earnings History.

PolyOne is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 4th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for PolyOne.

PolyOne updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Thursday, July, 25th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.53 to $2.58 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $2.53.

8 brokerages have issued twelve-month price targets for PolyOne's stock. Their forecasts range from $31.00 to $43.00. On average, they anticipate PolyOne's stock price to reach $35.86 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 9.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for PolyOne.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PolyOne in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for PolyOne.

Media headlines about POL stock have been trending negative recently, according to InfoTrie. The research firm rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. PolyOne earned a media sentiment score of -2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the specialty chemicals company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for PolyOne.

PolyOne saw a decline in short interest in the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 1,260,000 shares, a decline of 8.0% from the August 30th total of 1,370,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 505,900 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.5 days. Currently, 1.7% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View PolyOne's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to PolyOne include Ecolab (ECL), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), Celanese (CE), International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), RPM International (RPM), Albemarle (ALB), NewMarket (NEU), Ashland Global (ASH), W. R. Grace & Co (GRA), Balchem (BCPC), Quaker Chemical (KWR), Sensient Technologies (SXT), HB Fuller (FUL), Innospec (IOSP) and Stepan (SCL).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other PolyOne investors own include Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Ford Motor (F), Halliburton (HAL), Mcdonald's (MCD), Univar (UNVR), Intel (INTC), Nasdaq (NDAQ), Abbott Laboratories (ABT) and Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP).

PolyOne's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Convergence Investment Partners LLC (0.04%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.04%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.03%), State of Michigan Retirement System (0.03%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%) and Strs Ohio (0.01%). Company insiders that own PolyOne stock include J Scott Horn, M John Jr Midea, Robert E Abernathy, Robert M Patterson and William Howard Powell. View Institutional Ownership Trends for PolyOne.

POL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pacer Advisors Inc. and State of Michigan Retirement System. View Insider Buying and Selling for PolyOne.

POL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Convergence Investment Partners LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Strs Ohio and Envestnet Asset Management Inc.. Company insiders that have bought PolyOne stock in the last two years include J Scott Horn, M John Jr Midea and Robert E Abernathy. View Insider Buying and Selling for PolyOne.

Shares of POL 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 POL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $32.85.

PolyOne has a market capitalization of $2.53 billion and generates $3.53 billion in revenue each year. The specialty chemicals company earns $159.80 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.43 on an earnings per share basis. PolyOne employs 6,600 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About PolyOne.

The official website for PolyOne is http://www.polyone.com/.

PolyOne's mailing address is 33587 Walker Road, Avon Lake OH, 44012. The specialty chemicals company can be reached via phone at 440-930-1000 or via email at [email protected]