FMC (NYSE:FMC) Updates Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

FMC (NYSE:FMC) issued an update on its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided EPS guidance of 0.050-0.150 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS 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.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

FMC has been the subject of a number of recent research reports. Mizuho reduced their target price on FMC from $70.00 to $55.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, January 7th. UBS Group reduced their price objective on shares of FMC from $75.00 to $66.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Friday, December 20th. KeyCorp lowered their target price on shares of FMC from $79.00 to $69.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, January 2nd. Royal Bank of Canada raised their price target on shares of FMC from $78.00 to $81.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Friday, November 1st. Finally, Citigroup upped 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. Ten equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, four have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, FMC has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $63.75.

FMC Price Performance

Shares of FMC stock traded down $0.92 during trading hours on Tuesday, hitting $54.00. 4,028,292 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,559,641. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $53.55 and its 200-day moving average is $58.88. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.65, a current ratio of 1.48 and a quick ratio of 1.09. FMC has a 52 week low of $47.71 and a 52 week high of $68.72. The stock has a market cap of $6.74 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 4.65, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.20 and a beta of 0.84.

FMC (NYSE:FMC) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 4th. The basic materials company reported $1.79 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate 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 EPS for the current year.

FMC Announces Dividend

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

Insider Buying and Selling

In other FMC news, EVP Michael Finian Reilly sold 2,958 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on 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 owns 25,468 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,407,107. The trade was a 10.41 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, 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 transaction, the vice president now directly 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 sold a total of 7,491 shares of company stock worth $433,898 over the last three months. 0.81% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

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.