GrafTech International Ltd (EAF) saw an uptrend of 2.91% in the recent trading with $1.06 being its most recent. The current price level -58.10% lower than the highest price of $2.53 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 103.85% higher than the lowest price of $0.52 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on EAF appeared in (Business Wire) under the title “GrafTech Announces Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast” on Jul-02-25.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Hold by 3 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 3.00 for the stock.
GrafTech International Ltd Earnings – What Happened With EAF
Coming around sales and income figures on EAF Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor.
GrafTech International Ltd – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 258.11 million. EAF does have institutional investors; and they hold 55.78% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, FMR LLC was the top most holder in GrafTech International Ltd (NYSE:EAF) with an ownership of 38.4 million shares of the company or 14.8977 of the stake worth $37.25 million. The filing also reveals GRANTHAM, MAYO, VAN OTTERLOO & CO. LLC as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 8.8345 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $22.09 million for having 22.77 million shares in hand.
BLACKROCK INC. also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 6.6352 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 171.0 institutions which have possession in EAF’s shares.
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Technical Analysis of GrafTech International Ltd (NYSE:EAF) stock
To comprehend better with the trade moves and investors’ behavior, exploring the short, medium and long term technical indicators along with average volume of a stock is an effective way to make use of. When looking into those indicators for GrafTech International Ltd (EAF), we notice that the stock’s 20-day average volume is at 4,492,160 shares. And to end, EAF’s 100-day average volume is 3,160,208 shares with 50% of the long-term indicators pointing towards Sell for the stock.
