Huntsman Corp (NYSE:HUN) price on Wednesday, April 30, fall -1.11% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $13.31.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $13.46, moving within a range at $13.0 and $13.31. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.87. Turning to its 52-week performance, $25.92 and $11.90 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, HUN moved -15.71% over the past month.
Huntsman Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $2.31 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-16. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.00, with its dividend yield at 7.51%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 1.49B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 1.42B and 1.54B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 1.36% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 6.22B, representing a 3.09% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that HUN is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
10 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 2 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 7 recommend HUN as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 1 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
HUN’s current price about -0.62% and -14.02% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 41.36, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.68% and 6.47% in the 30-day chart. Further, Huntsman Corp (HUN) has a beta value of 0.84, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.75. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $20, forecast between a low of $20 and high of $20. Looking at the price targets, the low is -50.26% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -50.26%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -50.26% jump to $20 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Huntsman Corp (NYSE:HUN), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 4.06 over the past 10 days and 3.72 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 172.14 million shares.
The 5.65% of Huntsman Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 82.60% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 9.3 million on 2025-04-15, giving us a short ratio of 2.41. The data shows that as of 2025-04-15 short interest in Huntsman Corp (HUN) stood at 565.9999700000001 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 6.72 million registered in 2025-03-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -26.18% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the HUN stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
