Premier Financial (PFC) Stock Price, News & Analysis

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Premier Financial in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" PFC shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in PFC, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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3 equities research analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Premier Financial's shares. Their PFC share price targets range from $22.00 to $23.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $22.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 13.9% from the stock's current price.
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Premier Financial's stock was trading at $24.10 at the start of the year. Since then, PFC stock has decreased by 18.0% and is now trading at $19.75.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, July 23rd 2024.
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Premier Financial Corp. (NASDAQ:PFC) released its earnings results on Tuesday, April, 23rd. The company reported $0.50 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.48 by $0.02. The company earned $108.84 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $63.93 million. Premier Financial had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.19% and a net margin of 23.67%. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.63 EPS.

Premier Financial declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, April 23rd. Stockholders of record on Friday, May 3rd will be given a dividend of $0.31 per share on Friday, May 10th. This represents a $1.24 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 6.28%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 2nd.
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Premier Financial (NASDAQ:PFC) pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 6.08%. PFC 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 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 40.00%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, PFC will have a dividend payout ratio of 53.68% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ProShares Russell 2000 Dividend Growers ETF holds 384,874 shares of PFC stock, representing 1.01% of its portfolio.

Premier Financial's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Polaris Capital Management LLC (0.96%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.37%), Investors Asset Management of Georgia Inc. GA ADV (0.11%), Denali Advisors LLC (0.09%) and Hennion & Walsh Asset Management Inc. (0.07%). Insiders that own company stock include Donald P Hileman, Louis Michael Altman, Richard J Schiraldi, Samuel S Strausbaugh and Terri A Bettinger.
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Shares of PFC 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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