Stock Showing Surging Activity: CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF) – HugoPress

CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF)

Goldman Sachs Upgrades CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF)s stock to Buy with no specific Price Target. This rating was issued on 3/20/17. The stock recently closed its previous session at $28.42 by showing a percentage change of -0.7% from its previous day closing price of $28.62.

Price Target is basically a projection of future price of a companys stock by the expert analysis of investment analysts or investment firms. There may be various price targets for a stock. These analysts and investment firms use various valuation methods to decide a price target for a stock.

Several investment firms issued their expert ratings on CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF) in which Cowen & Co. Upgrades CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF) to Market Perform with no specific Price Target on 1/24/17. UBS Downgrades the stock to Neutral on 1/10/17 by stationing a price target of $35. Barclays Downgrades the companys stock to Equal-Weight on 12/12/16 with no specific Price Target. RBC Capital Downgrades CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF) to Underperform with no specific Price Target.

CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF) currently has a consensus Price Target of $32.24. While some analysts have a High Price target for the stock of $42 and a Low Price Target of $24.

Several sell side analysts reviewed their recommendations on CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF) where 1 analyst have rated the stock as Strong Buy, 5 analysts said its a Buy, 10 rated the stock as Hold, 1 analysts reported Underperform and 0 analysts gave their recommendations as Sell. (Current Month Yahoo Finance Ratings)

Zacks Investment Research also rated the stock with a value of 3. This scale runs from 1 to 5 where 1 represents Strong Buy and 5 represents Sell.

In the last Quarter, CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF) reported its Actual EPS of $-0.39/share. The analysts offering Earnings Estimates for the company were believing that CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF) could bring EPS of $-0.05/share. The difference between Actual EPS and Estimated EPS was -0.34 Percent. Thus the company showed an Earnings Surprise of -680 Percent.

CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF) has a market capitalization of 6.63 Billion. The stock traded with the volume of 2.7 Million shares in the last trading session. The stock touched its high share price of $36.86 on 01/25/17 and the stock also touched its Lowest price in the last 52-weeks of trading on 08/04/16 as $20.08. The company has a 1 Year high price target of $32.94. The stock is currently trading with a distance of 20-Day Simple Moving Average (SMA20) of -3.47%. The Moving Average SMA50 is -9.41% while SMA200 is 3.11%.

CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF) is currently showing its ROA (Return on Assets) of -1.8%. The Return on Investment (ROI) is at 0.4% while its Return on Equity (ROE) value stands at -7.3%. The stock currently shows its YTD (Year to Date) performance of -8.97 percent while its Weekly performance value is -4.18%. The Monthly and Yearly performances are -1.49 percent and -2.96 percent respectively. The Relative Volume value measured for CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF) is 0.52. The Average Volume (3 months) is 5.22 Million.

The stock currently has its Annual Dividend of $1.2 and an annual Dividend Yield of 4.22 Percent. CF has P/E (Price to Earnings ttm) value of 0, Forward P/E of 28.19, P/C (Price to cash per share) of 0 and Price to Free Cash Flow (P/FCF) value of 0. The stock is showing its Operating Margin of -0.9 percent.

Company Profile:

CF Industries Holdings, Inc. is the holding company for the operations of CF Industries, Inc. CF Industries, Inc. is a major producer and distributor of nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer products. CF Industries operates world-scale nitrogen fertilizer plants in Louisiana and Alberta, Canada; conducts phosphate mining and manufacturing operations in Central Florida; and distributes fertilizer products through a system of terminals, warehouses, and associated transportation equipment located primarily in the midwestern United States.

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