S&P Global (SPGI) Stock Price, News & Analysis

11 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for S&P Global in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 10 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" SPGI shares.
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11 analysts have issued 1-year target prices for S&P Global's stock. Their SPGI share price targets range from $415.00 to $520.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $464.22 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 12.6% from the stock's current price.
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S&P Global's stock was trading at $440.52 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, SPGI shares have decreased by 6.4% and is now trading at $412.11.
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S&P Global saw a drop in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,710,000 shares, a drop of 29.3% from the March 15th total of 2,420,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,350,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.3 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 25th 2024.
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S&P Global will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, April 25th at 8:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 203-369-3047.

S&P Global Inc. (NYSE:SPGI) posted its earnings results on Thursday, February, 8th. The business services provider reported $3.13 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $3.15 by $0.02. The business services provider earned $3.15 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.13 billion. S&P Global had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.34% and a net margin of 21.02%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 7.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $2.54 earnings per share.
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S&P Global announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, January 23rd. Investors of record on Tuesday, February 27th will be given a dividend of $0.91 per share on Tuesday, March 12th. This represents a $3.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.88%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, February 26th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.90.
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S&P Global (NYSE:SPGI) pays an annual dividend of $3.64 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.89%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 52 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 44.23%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, SPGI will have a dividend payout ratio of 22.82% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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S&P Global issued an update on its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 8th. The company provided EPS guidance of 13.750-14.000 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 14.430. The company issued revenue guidance of $13.2 billion-$13.4 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $13.4 billion.

282 employees have rated S&P Global Chief Executive Officer Douglas L. Peterson on Glassdoor.com. Douglas L. Peterson has an approval rating of 95% among the company's employees. This puts Douglas L. Peterson in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other S&P Global investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Home Depot (HD), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Alibaba Group (BABA), Intel (INTC), Adobe (ADBE), PayPal (PYPL), Mastercard (MA), Visa (V) and Walt Disney (DIS).

S&P Global's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Perpetual Ltd (0.06%), Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.06%), Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC (0.03%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.02%), Park National Corp OH (0.02%) and Czech National Bank (0.02%). Insiders that own company stock include Adam Jason Kansler, Christopher Craig, Dimitra Manis, Douglas L Peterson, Ewout L Steenbergen, John L Berisford, Martina Cheung, Nancy Luquette, Sally Moore, Saugata Saha and Steven J Kemps.
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