LON:ECM - Electrocomponents Share Price, Forecast & News

Electrocomponents trades on the London Stock Exchange (LON) under the ticker symbol "ECM."

Electrocomponents declared a dividend on Tuesday, November 12th. Investors of record on Thursday, November 28th will be paid a dividend of GBX 5.90 per share on Wednesday, January 8th. This represents a yield of 0.94%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 28th. The official announcement can be viewed at this link. View Electrocomponents' Dividend History.

Electrocomponents plc (LON:ECM) released its earnings results on Tuesday, November, 20th. The company reported $17.20 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $17.00 by $0.20. View Electrocomponents' Earnings History.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Electrocomponents' stock. Their forecasts range from GBX 625 to GBX 811. On average, they anticipate Electrocomponents' share price to reach GBX 727.44 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 6.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Electrocomponents.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Electrocomponents in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Electrocomponents.

News stories about ECM stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Electrocomponents earned a news sentiment score of 1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Electrocomponents.

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Shares of ECM and other U.K. stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSX). Some U.K. companies can be purchased through major U.S. brokerages in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are placeholder equities held in a trust by a bank that represent shares of a foreign stock.

One share of ECM stock can currently be purchased for approximately GBX 685.20.

Electrocomponents has a market capitalization of £3.06 billion and generates £1.95 billion in revenue each year. Electrocomponents employs 5,943 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Electrocomponents.

The official website for Electrocomponents is http://www.electrocomponents.com/.

Electrocomponents' mailing address is International Management Centre , 8050 Oxford Business Park North, OXFORD, OX4 2HW, United Kingdom. The company can be reached via phone at +44-1865-204000.