South Jersey Industries (SJI) Stock Price, News & Analysis

South Jersey Industries, Inc. (NYSE:SJI) issued its earnings results on Thursday, February, 24th. The utilities provider reported $0.58 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.55 by $0.03. South Jersey Industries had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.30% and a net margin of 5.99%. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.62 EPS.

South Jersey Industries (NYSE:SJI) pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.44%. The dividend payout ratio is 64.25%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, SJI will have a dividend payout ratio of 68.89% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
Read our dividend analysis for SJI.

South Jersey Industries's stock split on the morning of Monday, May 11th 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Friday, February 27th 2015. The newly minted shares were distributed to shareholders after the closing bell on Friday, May 8th 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

15 employees have rated South Jersey Industries Chief Executive Officer Mike Renna on Glassdoor.com. Mike Renna has an approval rating of 54% among the company's employees. This puts Mike Renna in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other South Jersey Industries investors own include AT&T (T), Energy Transfer (ET), New Jersey Resources (NJR), Southern (SO), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), Altria Group (MO), Procter & Gamble (PG), Philip Morris International (PM) and Ventas (VTR).