Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELP) Stock Price, News & Analysis

2 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL in the last year. There are currently 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" ELP shares.
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Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL's stock was trading at $8.48 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, ELP shares have decreased by 13.7% and is now trading at $7.3150.
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Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 964,100 shares, an increase of 60.9% from the March 15th total of 599,300 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 431,400 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.2 days. Currently, 1.2% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 8th 2024.
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Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (NYSE:ELP) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, March, 28th. The utilities provider reported ($0.07) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.42 by $0.50. The utilities provider earned $1.04 billion during the quarter. Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.36% and a net margin of 10.55%.

Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, September 21st. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, October 3rd will be given a dividend of $0.0952 per share on Monday, December 11th. This represents a $0.38 annualized dividend and a yield of 5.21%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, October 2nd.
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Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (NYSE:ELP) pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.68%.
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Shares of Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL split on the morning of Friday, December 29th 2023. The 5-4 split was announced on Friday, December 29th 2023. The newly created shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell on Friday, December 29th 2023. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 125 shares after the split.

1 employees have rated Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL Chief Executive Officer Raul Munhoz Neto on Glassdoor.com. Raul Munhoz Neto has an approval rating of -100% among the company's employees. This puts Raul Munhoz Neto in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Atlas Capital Advisors LLC (0.01%), Norden Group LLC (0.00%), First Trust Direct Indexing L.P. (0.00%) and Ballentine Partners LLC (0.00%).

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