CF Industries Holdings Inc (NYSE:CF) does about 2.39M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2298257 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 15.71B USD. Its current market price is $83.66, marking a decrease of -2.32% compared to the previous close of $85.65. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $87.90 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $60.08.
CF Industries Holdings Inc (CF) has a 20-day trading average at $83.13 and the current price is -4.82% off the 52-week high compared with 39.25% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $79.45 and its 200-day simple moving average is $78.55. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.59%, which decreases to 2.47% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 54.77 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $85.75, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 2.44% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on March 01, 2024 when Wolfe Research initiated the stock to “Outperform” and issued a price target of $99. Piper Sandler downgraded the stock to “Underweight” from Neutral on February 29, 2024 at a price target of $87-$82. UBS downgraded its price target at $95-$83.
CF Industries Holdings Inc (CF) stock is up 0.29% over the week and 4.97% over the past month. Its price is 5.23% year-to-date and 17.52% over the past year.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 12/30/2023, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of $1.58 above consensus estimates by $0.01. CF’s earnings per share are forecast to shrink by -23.00% this year and -1.80% over next year. Expected sales for next quarter are $1.66 billion, which analysts say will come at $6.05 billion for the current fiscal year and next year at $6.15 billion. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $1.49 billion.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 2.44 percent from here.
Outstanding shares total 188.19M with insiders holding 0.54% of the shares and institutional holders owning 95.97% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 17.23% and return on equity of 28.32%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 10.68 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 14.45. The beta has a value of 1.03. Price to book ratio is 2.75 and price to sales ratio is 2.37.
