Van Strum & Towne Inc. Has $345,000 Stock Holdings in Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSX)

Van Strum & Towne Inc. decreased its stake in shares of Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSXFree Report) by 10.4% in the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 3,031 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock after selling 350 shares during the quarter. Van Strum & Towne Inc.’s holdings in Phillips 66 were worth $345,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of the company. NewEdge Wealth LLC grew its stake in shares of Phillips 66 by 0.5% in the fourth quarter. NewEdge Wealth LLC now owns 15,199 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $1,732,000 after acquiring an additional 81 shares in the last quarter. JBR Co Financial Management Inc increased its holdings in shares of Phillips 66 by 0.9% during the fourth quarter. JBR Co Financial Management Inc now owns 9,520 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock worth $1,085,000 after purchasing an additional 85 shares during the period. Nwam LLC raised its position in shares of Phillips 66 by 2.2% in the fourth quarter. Nwam LLC now owns 3,876 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $442,000 after buying an additional 85 shares in the last quarter. Webster Bank N. A. boosted its stake in shares of Phillips 66 by 48.4% in the fourth quarter. Webster Bank N. A. now owns 270 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $31,000 after buying an additional 88 shares during the period. Finally, PFG Private Wealth Management LLC grew its position in Phillips 66 by 7.7% during the fourth quarter. PFG Private Wealth Management LLC now owns 1,233 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock worth $140,000 after buying an additional 88 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 76.93% of the company’s stock.

Phillips 66 Stock Up 3.5 %

PSX stock opened at $126.84 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of $51.71 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.68, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.84 and a beta of 1.31. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.62, a quick ratio of 0.83 and a current ratio of 1.21. The business’s 50 day moving average price is $122.82 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $126.03. Phillips 66 has a fifty-two week low of $108.91 and a fifty-two week high of $174.08.

Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSXGet Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Friday, January 31st. The oil and gas company reported ($0.15) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.23 by ($1.38). Phillips 66 had a return on equity of 8.58% and a net margin of 1.46%. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $3.09 earnings per share. As a group, analysts forecast that Phillips 66 will post 6.8 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Phillips 66 Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, March 5th. Investors of record on Monday, February 24th were paid a $1.15 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Monday, February 24th. This represents a $4.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.63%. Phillips 66’s payout ratio is currently 93.12%.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several research firms have recently issued reports on PSX. Wolfe Research raised Phillips 66 from a “peer perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $143.00 target price on the stock in a report on Friday, January 3rd. Wells Fargo & Company raised their target price on shares of Phillips 66 from $161.00 to $162.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Monday, February 3rd. Barclays upped their price target on shares of Phillips 66 from $115.00 to $135.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Friday. StockNews.com cut shares of Phillips 66 from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Sunday, March 2nd. Finally, Mizuho lowered their price objective on shares of Phillips 66 from $150.00 to $147.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, December 16th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have issued a hold rating and ten have assigned a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $149.43.

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Phillips 66 Profile

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Phillips 66 operates as an energy manufacturing and logistics company in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Midstream, Chemicals, Refining, and Marketing and Specialties (M&S). The Midstream segment transports crude oil and other feedstocks; delivers refined petroleum products to market; provides terminaling and storage services for crude oil and refined petroleum products; transports, stores, fractionates, exports, and markets natural gas liquids; provides other fee-based processing services; and gathers, processes, transports, and markets natural gas.

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