Zacks Research Issues Positive Estimate for Mosaic Earnings

The Mosaic Company (NYSE:MOS - Free Report) - Equities researchers at Zacks Research increased their Q1 2025 EPS estimates for shares of Mosaic in a research report issued on Wednesday, March 12th. Zacks Research analyst R. Department now expects that the basic materials company will post earnings of $0.32 per share for the quarter, up from their previous forecast of $0.31. The consensus estimate for Mosaic's current full-year earnings is $2.04 per share. Zacks Research also issued estimates for Mosaic's Q2 2025 earnings at $0.52 EPS, Q3 2025 earnings at $0.39 EPS, Q1 2026 earnings at $0.40 EPS and FY2027 earnings at $1.77 EPS.

Other equities analysts have also issued research reports about the stock. Wells Fargo & Company decreased their price target on shares of Mosaic from $29.00 to $26.00 and set an "equal weight" rating for the company in a report on Monday, March 3rd. Mizuho decreased their price target on shares of Mosaic from $29.00 to $28.00 and set a "neutral" rating for the company in a report on Monday, March 3rd. Barclays raised shares of Mosaic from an "underweight" rating to an "equal weight" rating and set a $27.00 price target for the company in a report on Wednesday, March 5th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised shares of Mosaic from a "neutral" rating to an "overweight" rating and boosted their price target for the company from $26.00 to $29.00 in a report on Monday, March 3rd. Finally, Piper Sandler boosted their price objective on shares of Mosaic from $30.00 to $33.00 and gave the company a "neutral" rating in a research report on Monday, January 27th. Nine investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have issued a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of "Hold" and a consensus target price of $31.64.

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Mosaic Trading Up 2.4 %

Shares of MOS stock traded up $0.65 on Friday, hitting $27.18. The stock had a trading volume of 7,323,999 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,244,949. Mosaic has a twelve month low of $22.48 and a twelve month high of $33.44. The firm has a market cap of $8.61 billion, a P/E ratio of 24.05, a PEG ratio of 1.42 and a beta of 1.34. The company has a current ratio of 1.19, a quick ratio of 0.49 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.27. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $26.30 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $26.16.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. Invesco Ltd. increased its stake in shares of Mosaic by 29.3% during the 4th quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 13,507,131 shares of the basic materials company's stock worth $332,005,000 after purchasing an additional 3,058,243 shares during the last quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP increased its stake in shares of Mosaic by 24.2% during the 4th quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 11,041,218 shares of the basic materials company's stock worth $271,382,000 after purchasing an additional 2,151,426 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC increased its stake in shares of Mosaic by 3.2% during the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 8,621,001 shares of the basic materials company's stock worth $218,751,000 after purchasing an additional 269,650 shares during the last quarter. Northern Trust Corp increased its stake in shares of Mosaic by 5.9% during the 4th quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 5,171,642 shares of the basic materials company's stock worth $127,119,000 after purchasing an additional 287,493 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Two Sigma Advisers LP increased its stake in shares of Mosaic by 21.7% during the 4th quarter. Two Sigma Advisers LP now owns 3,990,500 shares of the basic materials company's stock worth $98,086,000 after purchasing an additional 711,300 shares during the last quarter. 77.54% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Mosaic Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, March 20th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, March 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.22 per share. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 6th. This is a positive change from Mosaic's previous quarterly dividend of $0.21. This represents a $0.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.24%. Mosaic's payout ratio is currently 160.00%.

Mosaic Company Profile

The Mosaic Company, through its subsidiaries, produces and markets concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Phosphates, Potash, and Mosaic Fertilizantes. It owns and operates mines, which produce concentrated phosphate crop nutrients, such as diammonium phosphate, monoammonium phosphate, and ammoniated phosphate products; and phosphate-based animal feed ingredients primarily under the Biofos and Nexfos brand names, as well as produces a double sulfate of potash magnesia product under K-Mag brand name.