Umicore traded at 23.30 this Tuesday August 25th, decreasing 0.06 or 0.26 percent since the previous trading session. Looking back, over the last four weeks, Umicore lost 16.15 percent. Over the last 12 months, its price rose by 70.45 percent. Looking ahead, we forecast Umicore to be priced at 22.45 by the end of this quarter and at 20.98 in one year, according to Trading Economics global macro models projections and analysts expectations.
Umicore SA is a Belgium-based global materials technology group. It focuses on application areas, such as materials science, chemistry and metallurgy. Its activities are oriented around three business areas: Catalysis, Energy & Surface technologies and Recycling. Umicore generates the majority of its revenues from clean technologies, such as emission control catalysts, materials for rechargeable batteries and photovoltaics, fuel cells and recycling. Catalysis business group also produces precious metals-based compounds for use in the fine chemicals, life science and pharmaceutical industries. The materials produced by Energy & Surface technologies can be found in a number of applications used in the production and storage of clean energy, including rechargeable batteries and photovoltaics.