Motorola Solutions (MSI) Stock Price, News & Analysis

8 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Motorola Solutions in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 7 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" MSI shares.
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8 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Motorola Solutions' shares. Their MSI share price targets range from $300.00 to $400.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $348.38 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 2.6% from the stock's current price.
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Motorola Solutions' stock was trading at $313.09 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, MSI shares have increased by 8.4% and is now trading at $339.46.
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Motorola Solutions saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,630,000 shares, an increase of 35.8% from the March 15th total of 1,200,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 618,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.6 days. Currently, 1.0% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 2nd 2024.
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Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:MSI) announced its earnings results on Thursday, February, 8th. The communications equipment provider reported $3.90 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $3.63 by $0.27. The communications equipment provider had revenue of $2.85 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.82 billion. Motorola Solutions had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 441.65% and a net margin of 17.12%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 5.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $3.38 earnings per share.
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Motorola Solutions announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 21st. Investors of record on Friday, March 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.98 per share on Monday, April 15th. This represents a $3.92 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.15%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 14th.
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Motorola Solutions (NYSE:MSI) pays an annual dividend of $3.92 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.15%. 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 39.48%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MSI will have a dividend payout ratio of 30.65% 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 Motorola Solutions (NYSE:MSI) stock in their portfolio include iShares U.S. Digital Infrastructure and Real Estate ETF (IGN), iShares U.S. Telecommunications ETF (IYZ), SPDR S&P Telecom ETF (XTL), Invesco Focused Discovery Growth ETF (IVDG), Nuveen Dividend Growth ETF (NDVG), Goldman Sachs Future Tech Leaders Equity ETF (GTEK), Pacer Data and Digital Revolution ETF (TRFK) and ProShares S&P Technology Dividend Aristocrats ETF (TDV).

Motorola Solutions updated its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 8th. The company provided EPS guidance of 12.620-12.720 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 12.680. The company issued revenue guidance of $10.6 billion-$10.6 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $10.5 billion.

439 employees have rated Motorola Solutions Chief Executive Officer Gregory Q. Brown on Glassdoor.com. Gregory Q. Brown has an approval rating of 88% among the company's employees.

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Motorola Solutions' stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.22%), Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC (0.19%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.15%), Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc. (0.07%), Rheos Capital Works Inc. (0.06%) and Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. (0.03%). Insiders that own company stock include Cynthia Yazdi, Daniel G Pekofske, Gregory Q Brown, Jason J Winkler, John P Molloy, John P Molloy, Katherine A Maher, Kenneth D Denman, Mark S Hacker and Rajan Naik.
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