NYSE:PQG - PQ Group Stock Price, Price Target & More

PQ Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "PQG."

PQ Group Holdings (NYSE:PQG) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May, 10th. The company reported $0.16 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.15 by $0.01. The firm earned $366.20 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $350.09 million. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 10.0% on a year-over-year basis. View PQ Group's Earnings History.

PQ Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August, 9th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for PQ Group.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month target prices for PQ Group's stock. Their predictions range from $17.00 to $23.00. On average, they expect PQ Group's stock price to reach $19.7727 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for PQ Group.

PQ Group saw a drop in short interest in April. As of April 13th, there was short interest totalling 414,318 shares, a drop of 34.2% from the March 30th total of 629,806 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 142,508 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.9 days. Approximately 1.1% of the company's shares are short sold.

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(PQG) raised $638 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, September 29th 2017. The company issued 29,000,000 shares at a price of $21.00-$23.00 per share. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Credit Suisse acted as the underwriters for the IPO and J.P. Morgan, Jefferies, Deutsche Bank Securities, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Evercore ISI and Nomura were co-managers.

PQ Group's lock-up period expired on Wednesday, March 28th. PQ Group had issued 29,000,000 shares in its initial public offering on September 29th. The total size of the offering was $507,500,000 based on an initial share price of $17.50. Shares of the company owned by major shareholders and company insiders are now eligible to be traded as a result of the end of the lock-up period.

News articles about PQG stock have trended somewhat positive on Tuesday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. PQ Group earned a news sentiment score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also gave media headlines about the company an impact score of 45.49 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days.

PQ Group's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include JPMorgan Chase & Co. (3.63%), Zimmer Partners LP (3.42%), Boston Partners (2.19%), BlackRock Inc. (1.36%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (1.16%) and Federated Investors Inc. PA (0.40%). Company insiders that own PQ Group stock include David James Taylor and Kyle D Vann. View Institutional Ownership Trends for PQ Group.

PQG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Zimmer Partners LP, Boston Partners, Cubist Systematic Strategies LLC and MetLife Investment Advisors LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for PQ Group.

PQG stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Company MN, Federated Investors Inc. PA, BlackRock Inc., Foresters Investment Management Company Inc., Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc., Barclays PLC and New York State Common Retirement Fund. Company insiders that have bought PQ Group stock in the last two years include David James Taylor and Kyle D Vann. View Insider Buying and Selling for PQ Group.

Shares of PQG 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 PQG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $16.24.

PQ Group has a market capitalization of $2.11 billion and generates $1.47 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $57.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.46 on an earnings per share basis. PQ Group employs 3,149 workers across the globe.

PQ Group's mailing address is 300 LINDENWOOD DRIVE VALLEYBROOKE CORPORATE CENTER, MALVERN PA, 19355. The company can be reached via phone at 610-651-4400.