NYSE: MTX
Last close prices updated as of
Feb 01, 2023, 7:00 PM EST
| USD | BATS BZX Real-Time Price
- Last Close 70.99
- Sector Basic Materials
- Industry Specialty Chemicals
- Investment Style Small Blend
- Day Range 69.00 – 71.83
- Year Range 49.38 – 72.41
- Market Cap 2.3036 Bil
- Volume / Avg 150,698.0 / 151,717.6
- Price / Sales 1.10
- Price / Book 1.50
- Forward Div Yield 0.29%
- Trailing Div Yield 0.28%
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Company Profile MTX
Business Description
Minerals Technologies Inc mines, produces, and sells mineral-based products. The firm organizes itself into three segments based on product type. The specialty minerals segment, sells calcium carbonate, limestone, and talc, which is used in the paper, building materials, paint, automotive, and pharmaceutical industries. The refractories segment sells products for steel furnaces. The performance materials segment sells bentonite used in steel alloy casting and household products including cat litter. The majority of revenue comes from the United States.
FAQs for Minerals Technologies Inc Stock
Yes. MTX has a forward dividend yield of 0.29%.
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MTX’s full dividends and stock split history
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Dividend yield allows investors, particularly those interested in dividend-paying stocks,
to compare the relationship between a stock’s price and how it rewards stockholders through dividends.
The formula for calculating dividend yield is to divide the annual dividend paid per share by the stock price.
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MTX’s market cap is 2.30 Bil.
Market capitalization is calculated by taking a company’s share price and multiplying it by the total number of shares.
It’s often used to measure a company’s size. In the Morningstar Style Box, large-cap names account for the
largest 70% of U.S. stocks, mid-cap names account for the largest 70–90%, and small-cap names are the remaining 10% of companies.
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MTX’s stock style is Small Core.
Style is an investment factor that has a meaningful impact on investment risk and returns.
Style is calculated by combining value and growth scores, which are first individually calculated.
High-growth stocks tend to represent the technology, healthcare, and communications sectors. They rarely distribute dividends to shareholders, opting for reinvestment in their businesses. More value-oriented stocks tend to represent financial services, utilities, and energy stocks. These are established companies that reliably pay dividends.
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MTX’s price/sales is 1.10.
Price/sales represents the amount an investor is willing to pay for a dollar generated from
a particular company’s sales or revenues.
MTX’s price/forward earnings is 11.63.
Forward P/E gives some indication of how cheap or expensive a stock is compared with consensus earnings estimates.
The lower the Forward P/E, the cheaper the stock.
MTX’s price/book is 1.50.
Price/book ratio can tell investors approximately how much they’re paying for a company’s assets,
based on historical, rather than current, valuations. Historical valuations generally do not reflect
a company’s current market value. Value investors frequently look for companies that have low price/book ratios.
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MTX’s beta can be found in Trading Information at the top of this page.
A stock’s beta measures how closely tied its price movements have been to the performance of the overall market.
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