CF Industries Holdings Inc (NYSE: CF) is 11.33% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $69.13 and a high of $95.72 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The CF stock was last observed hovering at around $95.50 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.51%.
Currently trading at $94.99, the stock is 8.89% and 8.61% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 2.79 million and changing -0.53% at the moment leaves the stock 17.42% off its SMA200. CF registered 20.58% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 34.26%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $87.1994 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $80.8353.
The stock witnessed a 5.76% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 8.18%, and is 5.83% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 3.23% over the week and 2.15% over the month.
CF Industries Holdings Inc (CF) has around 2700 employees, a market worth around $16.53B and $5.98B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 15.05 and Fwd P/E is 15.80. Profit margin for the company is 19.46%. Distance from 52-week low is 37.41% and -0.76% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (13.93%).
with sales reaching $1.51B over the same period.The EPS is expected to shrink by -24.08% this year, but quarterly earnings will post -11.06% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to shrink -3.75% in year-over-year returns.
CF Industries Holdings Inc (CF) Top Institutional Holders
1059.0 institutions hold shares in CF Industries Holdings Inc (CF), with institutional investors hold 97.17% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 174.33M, and float is at 172.62M with Short Float at 2.51%. Institutions hold 96.52% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 21.56 million shares valued at $1.6 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 11.4928% of the CF Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 15.91 million shares valued at $1.18 billion to account for 8.4816 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ which holds 13.31 million shares representing 7.0942% and valued at over $986.44 million, while STATE STREET CORP holds 4.7814 of the shares totaling 8.97 million with a market value of $664.85 million.
CF Industries Holdings Inc (CF) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Menzel Susan L, the company’s EVP and Chief Admin. Officer. SEC filings show that Menzel Susan L sold 1,500 shares of the company’s common stock on Jan 13 ’25 at a price of $95.00 per share for a total of $0.14 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 93986.0 shares.
CF Industries Holdings Inc disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on Jan 13 ’25 that Malik Ashraf K (Sr. VP, Manufacturing & D’istn) sold a total of 8,889 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on Jan 13 ’25 and was made at $95.00 per share for $0.84 million. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 15871.0 shares of the CF stock.
Still, SEC filings show that on Jan 13 ’25, Frost Bert A (EVP,Sales,MktDev&Supply Chain) disposed off 3,000 shares at an average price of $95.00 for $0.28 million. The insider now directly holds 105,754 shares of CF Industries Holdings Inc (CF).
