Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) Stock Price, News & Analysis

7 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Interpublic Group of Companies in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" IPG shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in IPG, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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7 analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Interpublic Group of Companies' stock. Their IPG share price targets range from $30.00 to $40.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $35.25 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 15.9% from the stock's current price.
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Interpublic Group of Companies' stock was trading at $32.64 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, IPG shares have decreased by 6.8% and is now trading at $30.42.
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Interpublic Group of Companies saw a drop in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 17,740,000 shares, a drop of 8.5% from the March 15th total of 19,380,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,170,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.3 days. Approximately 4.7% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2024.
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Interpublic Group of Companies will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, April 24th at 8:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 203-369-3403 with passcode "1008".

The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (NYSE:IPG) posted its earnings results on Thursday, February, 8th. The business services provider reported $1.18 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.16 by $0.02. The business services provider had revenue of $2.59 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.57 billion. Interpublic Group of Companies had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 30.52% and a net margin of 10.09%. Interpublic Group of Companies's quarterly revenue was up 1.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.02 EPS.
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Interpublic Group of Companies declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 8th. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 1st will be given a dividend of $0.33 per share on Friday, March 15th. This represents a $1.32 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.34%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 29th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.31.
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Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE:IPG) pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.34%. IPG has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company has been increasing its dividend for 12 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 46.32%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, IPG will have a dividend payout ratio of 43.56% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE:IPG) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Communication Services ETF (EWCO), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Communication Services ETF (RSPC), USCF Dividend Income Fund (UDI), First Trust Dorsey Wright Momentum & Dividend ETF (DDIV), First Trust NASDAQ Rising Dividend Achievers (RDVY), ALPS Sector Dividend Dogs ETF (SDOG), FT Vest Rising Dividend Achievers Target Income ETF (RDVI) and Alpha Architect U.S. Quantitative Value ETF (QVAL).

1 employees have rated Interpublic Group of Companies Chief Executive Officer Philippe Krakowsky on Glassdoor.com. Philippe Krakowsky has an approval rating of -100% among the company's employees. This puts Philippe Krakowsky in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Interpublic Group of Companies' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Miller Howard Investments Inc. NY (0.48%), Perpetual Ltd (0.13%), Reinhart Partners LLC. (0.08%), Sound Income Strategies LLC (0.06%), Security National Bank (0.04%) and CWM LLC (0.03%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew Bonzani, Christopher F Carroll, Dawn E Hudson, Ellen Tobi Johnson, Jocelyn Carter-Miller, Mary Guilfoile, Michael Isor Roth and Philippe Krakowsky.
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