Ecovyst (NYSE:ECVT) Price Target Raised to $15.00

Ecovyst (NYSE:ECVT) had its price objective hoisted by Citigroup from $13.00 to $15.00 in a report issued on Monday,Benzinga reports. The brokerage presently has a “neutral” rating on the stock. Citigroup’s target price would suggest a potential upside of 4.41% from the stock’s previous close.

ECVT has been the topic of several other reports. Wall Street Zen lowered shares of Ecovyst from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Saturday, March 21st. BWS Financial raised their target price on shares of Ecovyst from $12.00 to $16.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, March 2nd. Weiss Ratings restated a “sell (d)” rating on shares of Ecovyst in a research report on Wednesday, January 21st. Finally, KeyCorp raised their target price on shares of Ecovyst from $11.00 to $14.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Friday, February 27th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, one has given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $14.00.

Ecovyst Price Performance

Shares of ECVT stock traded up $0.44 during trading hours on Monday, hitting $14.37. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,772,691 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,881,587. The business has a fifty day moving average of $11.88 and a 200-day moving average of $10.14. The stock has a market cap of $1.59 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -23.12, a P/E/G ratio of 1.96 and a beta of 1.04. Ecovyst has a twelve month low of $5.68 and a twelve month high of $14.26. The company has a current ratio of 2.64, a quick ratio of 2.42 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.65.

Ecovyst (NYSE:ECVT) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 26th. The company reported $0.28 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.21 by $0.07. The business had revenue of $199.43 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $184.85 million. Ecovyst had a negative net margin of 9.27% and a positive return on equity of 9.39%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 33.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.28 earnings per share. Ecovyst has set its FY 2026 guidance at 0.450-0.650 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts anticipate that Ecovyst will post 0.44 EPS for the current year.

Institutional Trading of Ecovyst

A number of hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the company. State of Alaska Department of Revenue purchased a new position in Ecovyst during the third quarter worth approximately $48,000. CWM LLC raised its stake in Ecovyst by 45.9% during the third quarter. CWM LLC now owns 8,678 shares of the company’s stock worth $76,000 after purchasing an additional 2,732 shares during the period. Russell Investments Group Ltd. purchased a new position in Ecovyst during the third quarter worth approximately $87,000. Landscape Capital Management L.L.C. purchased a new position in Ecovyst during the third quarter worth approximately $89,000. Finally, PharVision Advisers LLC purchased a new position in Ecovyst during the third quarter worth approximately $101,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 86.69% of the company’s stock.

Ecovyst Company Profile

Ecovyst Inc is a global specialty chemicals company that develops, manufactures and markets performance-enhancing products for industrial applications. The company’s core offerings include catalysts, phosphorus-based additives and barium carbonate materials, all designed to improve process efficiency, product quality and environmental performance. Ecovyst serves a diverse customer base in the energy, refining, chemical, polymer, food and consumer goods industries.

The company’s Catalysts segment supplies fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) and hydroprocessing catalysts that help petroleum refiners maximize fuel yield, reduce sulfur emissions and meet increasingly stringent environmental standards.