FY2025 Earnings Forecast for Mosaic Issued By Zacks Research

The Mosaic Company (NYSE:MOS) – Research analysts at Zacks Research lifted their FY2025 earnings estimates for shares of Mosaic in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday, March 12th. Zacks Research analyst R. Department now expects that the basic materials company will post earnings per share of $1.73 for the year, up from their prior forecast of $1.71. The consensus estimate for Mosaic’s current full-year earnings is $2.04 per share. Zacks Research also issued estimates for Mosaic’s Q4 2025 earnings at $0.50 EPS, Q2 2026 earnings at $0.58 EPS, Q3 2026 earnings at $0.71 EPS, Q4 2026 earnings at $0.10 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $1.79 EPS.

A number of other research analysts also recently issued reports on MOS. Piper Sandler lifted their price objective on shares of Mosaic from $30.00 to $33.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Monday, January 27th. Scotiabank cut their price objective on shares of Mosaic from $34.00 to $31.00 and set a “sector outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Monday, March 3rd. Barclays raised shares of Mosaic from an “underweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and set a $27.00 target price on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, March 5th. The Goldman Sachs Group assumed coverage on shares of Mosaic in a research report on Thursday, March 13th. They set a “buy” rating and a $31.00 target price on the stock. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised shares of Mosaic from a “neutral” rating to an “overweight” rating and boosted their target price for the stock from $26.00 to $29.00 in a research report on Monday, March 3rd. Nine investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $31.64.

Mosaic Stock Up 2.4 %

Shares of Mosaic stock opened at $27.18 on Monday. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $26.34 and its 200-day moving average price is $26.15. The company has a quick ratio of 0.49, a current ratio of 1.19 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.27. Mosaic has a 52-week low of $22.48 and a 52-week high of $33.44. The company has a market cap of $8.61 billion, a P/E ratio of 24.05, a PEG ratio of 1.42 and a beta of 1.34.

Mosaic Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, March 20th. Investors of record on Thursday, March 6th will be paid a $0.22 dividend. This is a boost from Mosaic’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.21. This represents a $0.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.24%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 6th. Mosaic’s payout ratio is currently 160.00%.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Mosaic

Large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. 111 Capital purchased a new stake in shares of Mosaic during the fourth quarter worth $740,000. PKO Investment Management Joint Stock Co purchased a new stake in shares of Mosaic during the fourth quarter worth $270,000. Probity Advisors Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Mosaic by 6.2% during the fourth quarter. Probity Advisors Inc. now owns 8,701 shares of the basic materials company’s stock worth $214,000 after buying an additional 508 shares in the last quarter. Siemens Fonds Invest GmbH purchased a new stake in shares of Mosaic during the fourth quarter worth $224,000. Finally, Universal Beteiligungs und Servicegesellschaft mbH purchased a new stake in shares of Mosaic during the fourth quarter worth $5,214,000. 77.54% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

About Mosaic

The Mosaic Company, through its subsidiaries, produces and markets concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Phosphates, Potash, and Mosaic Fertilizantes. It owns and operates mines, which produce concentrated phosphate crop nutrients, such as diammonium phosphate, monoammonium phosphate, and ammoniated phosphate products; and phosphate-based animal feed ingredients primarily under the Biofos and Nexfos brand names, as well as produces a double sulfate of potash magnesia product under K-Mag brand name.