CF Industries Holdings Inc (NYSE:CF) price on current trading day, rose 0.28% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $79.84.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $79.62, moving within a range at $79.07 and $80.4. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.826 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 11.80. Turning to its 52-week performance, $98.25 and $67.34 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, CF moved 0.01% over the past month.
CF Industries Holdings Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $13.29 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-18. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 2.00, with its dividend yield at 2.51%. 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 1.54B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 1.46B and 1.69B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 4.51% 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 6.16B, representing a 3.83% 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 CF is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
9 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 3 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 5 recommend CF 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.
CF’s current price about 6.44% and 4.30% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 60.85, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.91% and 3.99% in the 30-day chart. Further, CF Industries Holdings Inc (CF) has a beta value of 0.92, and an average true range (ATR) of 2.54. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $83, forecast between a low of $79 and high of $87. Looking at the price targets, the low is 1.05% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -8.97%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -3.96% jump to $83 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on CF Industries Holdings Inc (NYSE:CF), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.92 over the past 10 days and 2.89 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 169.88 million shares.
The 0.86% of CF Industries Holdings Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 101.28% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 8.23 million on 2025-04-15, giving us a short ratio of 2.82. The data shows that as of 2025-04-15 short interest in CF Industries Holdings Inc (CF) stood at 583.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 7.96 million registered in 2025-03-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -6.42% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the CF stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
