Barclays Sticks to Its Hold Rating for Trinseo (TSE)


Barclays analyst Duffy Fischer maintained a Hold rating on Trinseo (TSE) yesterday and set a price target of $41.00. The company’s shares closed last Tuesday at $40.25.

According to TipRanks.com, Fischer is a 4-star analyst with an average return of 12.3% and a 59.8% success rate. Fischer covers the Basic Materials sector, focusing on stocks such as Sherwin-Williams Company, Element Solutions, and Kronos Worldwide.

Currently, the analyst consensus on Trinseo is a Hold with an average price target of $34.67, a -10.6% downside from current levels. In a report released today, Deutsche Bank also maintained a Hold rating on the stock with a $40.00 price target.

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Based on Trinseo’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending June 30, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $570 million and GAAP net loss of $128 million. In comparison, last year the company earned revenue of $952 million and had a net profit of $28 million.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 53 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of TSE in relation to earlier this year.

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Trinseo SA engages in the manufacture and marketing of synthetic rubber, latex binders and plastics. It operates through the following divisions: Performance Materials and Basic Plastics & Feedstocks. The Performance Materials division includes latex binders, synthetic rubber and performance plastics segments. The Basic Plastics & Feedstocks division offers basic plastics, feedstocks and americas styrenics. The company was founded on June 3, 2010 and is headquartered in Berwyn, PA.

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