CF Industries is an agricultural inputs business based in the US. CF Industries shares (CF) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. CF Industries employs 2,700 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $6.1 billion.
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| Latest market close | $73.51 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $69.13 - $86.45 |
| 50-day moving average | $74.62 |
| 200-day moving average | $78.20 |
| Wall St. target price | $80.46 |
| PE ratio | 12.1504 |
| Dividend yield | $1.7 (2.8%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $6.05 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $73.51 from 2024-07-25
| 1 week (2024-07-19) | 2.47% |
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| 1 month (2024-06-27) | -1.67% |
| 3 months (2024-04-26) | -8.11% |
| 6 months (2024-01-26) | -5.14% |
| 1 year (2023-07-27) | -9.78% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-07-25) | -18.58% |
| 3 years (2021-07-27) | 56.14% |
| 5 years (2019-07-26) | 63.65% |
Valuing CF Industries stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of CF Industries's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
CF Industries's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 12x. In other words, CF Industries shares trade at around 12x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
CF Industries's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.6443. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into CF Industries's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
CF Industries's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $2.7 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a CF Industries's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $6.1 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 21.09% |
| Gross profit TTM | $5.9 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 8.02% |
| Return on equity TTM | 17.73% |
| Profit margin | 19.03% |
| Book value | $29.51 |
| Market Capitalization | $13.4 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 30.02% of net profits
Recently CF Industries has paid out, on average, around 30.02% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 2.8% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), CF Industries shareholders could enjoy a 2.8% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In CF Industries's case, that would currently equate to about $1.7 per share.
While CF Industries's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that CF Industries may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
CF Industries's most recent dividend payout was on 29 August 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 14 August 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
CF Industries's shares were split on a 5:1 basis on 17 June 2015. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 5 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your CF Industries shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 80% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for CF Industries shares which in turn could have impacted CF Industries's share price.
Over the last 12 months, CF Industries's shares have ranged in value from as little as $69.13 up to $86.4539. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while CF Industries's is 0.944. This would suggest that CF Industries's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of hydrogen and nitrogen products for energy, fertilizer, emissions abatement, and other industrial activities in North America, Europe, and internationally. It operates through Ammonia, Granular Urea, UAN, AN, and Other segments. The company's principal products include anhydrous ammonia, granular urea, urea ammonium nitrate, and ammonium nitrate products. It also offers diesel exhaust fluid, urea liquor, nitric acid, and aqua ammonia products. The company primarily serves cooperatives, independent fertilizer distributors, traders, wholesalers, and industrial users. CF Industries Holdings, Inc.
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