FMC (NYSE:FMC) Releases FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

FMC (NYSE:FMC) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided EPS guidance of 3.260-3.700 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 4.360. The company issued revenue guidance of $4.2 billion-$4.4 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.4 billion. FMC also updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 0.050-0.150 EPS.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

FMC has been the subject of a number of research reports. Citigroup lifted their price objective on FMC from $55.00 to $61.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, January 29th. Royal Bank of Canada cut FMC from an “outperform” rating to a “sector perform” rating and lowered their target price for the stock from $78.00 to $47.00 in a research note on Wednesday. Bank of America raised FMC from an “underperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and lowered their price objective for the stock from $63.00 to $61.00 in a research report on Tuesday, January 14th. Mizuho reduced their target price on FMC from $70.00 to $55.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, January 7th. Finally, UBS Group reduced their price objective on FMC from $75.00 to $66.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, December 20th. Eleven equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, three have issued a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, FMC has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $60.92.

FMC Trading Down 1.7 %

Shares of FMC stock opened at $54.00 on Wednesday. FMC has a fifty-two week low of $47.71 and a fifty-two week high of $68.72. The firm has a market cap of $6.74 billion, a PE ratio of 4.65, a P/E/G ratio of 1.20 and a beta of 0.84. The business’s fifty day moving average is $53.43 and its two-hundred day moving average is $58.85. The company has a quick ratio of 1.09, a current ratio of 1.48 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.65.

FMC (NYSE:FMC) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February 4th. The basic materials company reported $1.79 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.65 by $0.14. FMC had a return on equity of 7.68% and a net margin of 34.93%. Analysts anticipate that FMC will post 3.33 earnings per share for the current year.

FMC Dividend Announcement

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, January 16th. Investors of record on Tuesday, December 31st were issued a $0.58 dividend. This represents a $2.32 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.30%. The ex-dividend date was Tuesday, December 31st. FMC’s payout ratio is currently 19.97%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, EVP Michael Finian Reilly sold 2,958 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, January 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $55.25, for a total value of $163,429.50. Following the transaction, the executive vice president now owns 25,468 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,407,107. The trade was a 10.41 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, VP Jacqueline Scanlan sold 4,529 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, November 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $59.67, for a total value of $270,245.43. Following the completion of the transaction, the vice president now owns 28,649 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,709,485.83. This trade represents a 13.65 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 7,491 shares of company stock worth $433,898 over the last quarter. 0.81% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

About FMC

FMC Corporation, an agricultural sciences company, provides crop protection, plant health, and professional pest and turf management products. It develops, markets, and sells crop protection chemicals that includes insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides; and biologicals, crop nutrition, and seed treatment products, which are used in agriculture to enhance crop yield and quality by controlling a range of insects, weeds, and diseases, as well as in non-agricultural markets for pest control.