Huntsman Corp (NYSE: HUN) is -2.38% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $15.67 and a high of $27.01 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The HUN stock was last observed hovering at around $17.78 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.18%.
Currently trading at $17.60, the stock is 2.71% and 0.01% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 2.33 million and changing -1.01% at the moment leaves the stock -17.31% off its SMA200. HUN registered -27.63% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -15.18%.
The stock witnessed a 0.69% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -9.60%, and is 3.65% 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 5.63% over the week and 3.61% over the month.
Huntsman Corp (HUN) has around 6300 employees, a market worth around $3.04B and $6.04B in sales. Fwd P/E is 19.99. Profit margin for the company is -2.68%. Distance from 52-week low is 12.32% and -34.84% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (-3.36%).
with sales reaching $1.51B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 336.77% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 3.84% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 2.75% in year-over-year returns.
Huntsman Corp (HUN) Top Institutional Holders
The shares outstanding are 172.14M, and float is at 162.60M with Short Float at 3.24%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 16.38 million shares valued at $373.07 million. The investor’s holdings represent 9.5368% of the HUN Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 14.26 million shares valued at $$324.61 million to account for 8.2979 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP which holds 9.99 million shares representing 5.8123% and valued at over $227.37 million, while ALLSPRING GLOBAL INVESTMENTS HOLDINGS, LLC holds 3.8686 of the shares totaling 6.66 million with a market value of $151.6 million.
Huntsman Corp (HUN) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Beckerle Mary C,the company’sDirector. SEC filings show that Beckerle Mary C sold 20,201 shares of the company’s common stock on Nov 06 ’24 at a price of $21.42 per share for a total of $0.43 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Aug 12 ’24, STRYKER DAVID M (Exec VP, GC and Sec) acquired 2,500 shares at an average price of $20.11 for $50273.0. The insider now directly holds 424,579 shares of Huntsman Corp (HUN).
