FMC (NYSE:FMC) Releases Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

FMC (NYSE:FMC) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 0.050-0.150 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 0.790. The company issued revenue guidance of $750.0 million-$800.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $951.8 million. FMC also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 3.260-3.700 EPS.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities research analysts have issued reports on the stock. Citigroup boosted their price target on shares of FMC from $55.00 to $61.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Wednesday, January 29th. UBS Group dropped their price target on shares of FMC from $75.00 to $66.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, December 20th. Bank of America raised FMC from an “underperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and decreased their price objective for the company from $63.00 to $61.00 in a report on Tuesday, January 14th. KeyCorp dropped their target price on FMC from $79.00 to $69.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, January 2nd. Finally, Mizuho decreased their price target on FMC from $70.00 to $55.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, January 7th. Eleven analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, three have assigned a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $60.92.

FMC Stock Performance

FMC stock opened at $54.00 on Wednesday. FMC has a 1-year low of $47.71 and a 1-year high of $68.72. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $53.43 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $58.85. 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 company has a current ratio of 1.48, a quick ratio of 1.09 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.65.

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

FMC Announces Dividend

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

Insider Activity at FMC

In other FMC news, VP Jacqueline Scanlan sold 4,529 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, November 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $59.67, for a total value of $270,245.43. Following the completion of the sale, the vice president now owns 28,649 shares in the company, valued at $1,709,485.83. This trade represents a 13.65 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. Also, EVP Michael Finian Reilly sold 2,958 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, January 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $55.25, for a total transaction of $163,429.50. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president now directly 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 disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 7,491 shares of company stock valued at $433,898. Corporate insiders own 0.81% of the company’s stock.

FMC Company Profile

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.