Brunswick (BC) Stock Price, News & Analysis

12 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Brunswick in the last twelve months. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" BC shares.
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12 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Brunswick's shares. Their BC share price targets range from $77.00 to $108.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $92.69 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 9.0% from the stock's current price.
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Brunswick's stock was trading at $96.75 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, BC stock has decreased by 12.1% and is now trading at $85.00.
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Brunswick saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 4,490,000 shares, an increase of 13.7% from the March 15th total of 3,950,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 731,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 6.1 days. Approximately 6.7% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 25th 2024.
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Brunswick will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, April 25th at 11:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 201-612-7415 with passcode "13745630".

Brunswick Co. (NYSE:BC) issued its earnings results on Thursday, February, 1st. The company reported $1.45 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.66 by $0.21. The firm earned $1.36 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.44 billion. Brunswick had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 29.78% and a net margin of 6.57%. Brunswick's revenue was down 14.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company earned $1.99 EPS.

Brunswick announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 15th. Stockholders of record on Monday, February 26th will be given a dividend of $0.42 per share on Friday, March 15th. This represents a $1.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.98%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 23rd. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.40.
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Brunswick (NYSE:BC) pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.93%. 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 28.24%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BC will have a dividend payout ratio of 19.07% 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 Brunswick (NYSE:BC) stock in their portfolio include VanEck Morningstar SMID Moat ETF (SMOT), First Trust Industrials/Producer Durables AlphaDEX Fund (FXR), ALPS O'Shares U.S. Small-Cap Quality Dividend ETF (OUSM) and Fundamentals First ETF (KNOW).Future Fund Long/Short ETF (FFLS).

Brunswick updated its FY24 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 1st. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $7.00-8.00 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $8.62. The company issued revenue guidance of $6.0-6.2 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $6.33 billion.

18 employees have rated Brunswick Chief Executive Officer David Foulkes on Glassdoor.com. David Foulkes has an approval rating of 93% among the company's employees. This puts David Foulkes 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 Brunswick investors own include Xtrackers California Municipal Bond ETF (CA), BlackRock (BLK), Micron Technology (MU), Endologix (ELGX), Accenture (ACN), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Applied Materials (AMAT), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), NVIDIA (NVDA) and QUALCOMM (QCOM).

Brunswick's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Sendero Wealth Management LLC (0.05%), Alaska Permanent Fund Corp (0.03%), Mather Group LLC. (0.00%), CWM LLC (0.00%), Atlas Capital Advisors LLC (0.00%) and Rise Advisors LLC (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Brenna Preisser, Christopher F Dekker, David M Foulkes, David V Singer, John G Buelow, Nancy E Cooper, Randall S Altman and Ryan M Gwillim.
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Shares of BC stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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