Eversource Energy (ES) Stock Price, News & Analysis

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Eversource Energy in the last twelve months. There are currently 7 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" ES shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in ES, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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13 analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Eversource Energy's shares. Their ES share price targets range from $60.00 to $73.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $66.08 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 13.5% from the stock's current price.
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Eversource Energy's stock was trading at $61.72 at the beginning of the year. Since then, ES shares have decreased by 5.6% and is now trading at $58.24.
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Eversource Energy saw a decrease in short interest in the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 5,210,000 shares, a decrease of 11.4% from the February 29th total of 5,880,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,090,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.7 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 1st 2024.
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Eversource Energy (NYSE:ES) announced its earnings results on Tuesday, February, 13th. The utilities provider reported $0.95 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.97 by $0.02. The utilities provider earned $2.69 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3 billion. Eversource Energy had a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.92% and a negative net margin of 3.71%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 11.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.92 earnings per share.
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Eversource Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 31st. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, March 5th will be given a dividend of $0.715 per share on Friday, March 29th. This represents a $2.86 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.91%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, March 4th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.68.
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Eversource Energy (NYSE:ES) pays an annual dividend of $2.86 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.86%. ES has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Eversource Energy (NYSE:ES) stock in their portfolio include ClearBridge Sustainable Infrastructure ETF (INFR), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Utilities ETF (RSPU), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Utilities ETF (RYU), BTD Capital Fund (DIP), First Trust EIP Carbon Impact ETF (ECLN), Invesco Dorsey Wright Utilities Momentum ETF (PUI), First Trust Utilities AlphaDEX Fund (FXU) and Xtrackers S&P ESG Dividend Aristocrats ETF (SNPD).

Eversource Energy updated its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Tuesday, February, 13th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 4.500-4.670 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 4.490. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

135 employees have rated Eversource Energy Chief Executive Officer James Judge on Glassdoor.com. James Judge has an approval rating of 92% among the company's employees. This puts James Judge in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Eversource Energy's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.09%), Czech National Bank (0.02%), Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (0.02%), Global Assets Advisory LLC (0.01%), Somerset Trust Co (0.01%) and CWM LLC (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Cotton M Cleveland, Faasen William C Van, Faasen William C Van, Frederica M Williams, Gregory B Butler, Gregory B Butler, James W Hunt III, Jay S Buth, Jay S Buth, Linda Dorcena Forry, Penelope M Conner and Tom B Langley.
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