LON:STAN - Standard Chartered Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Standard Chartered trades on the London Stock Exchange (LON) under the ticker symbol "STAN."

Standard Chartered announced a dividend on Tuesday, February 26th. Investors of record on Thursday, March 7th will be given a dividend of GBX 0.15 per share on Thursday, May 16th. This represents a yield of 1.85%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 7th. This is a positive change from Standard Chartered's previous dividend of $0.06. The official announcement can be viewed at this link. View Standard Chartered's Dividend History.

17 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Standard Chartered's shares. Their forecasts range from GBX 489 to GBX 925. On average, they anticipate Standard Chartered's share price to reach GBX 691.64 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 3.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Standard Chartered.

17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Standard Chartered in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings, 7 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Standard Chartered.

News coverage about STAN stock has trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Standard Chartered earned a news sentiment score of 1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the financial services provider a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future.

Some companies that are related to Standard Chartered include Banco Santander (BNC), Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS), ABN AMRO Group (ABMRF), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), Banco Santander (SAN), Greater Hudson Bank (GHDS), JULIUS BAER GRP/ADR (JBAXY), LEDYARD FINL GR/SH (LFGP), MERCERSBURG Fin/SH (MCBG) and SVENSKA HANDELS/ADR (SVNLY).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Standard Chartered investors own include HSBC (HSBA), Standard Chartered (SCBFF), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), Barclays (BARC), KAZ Minerals (KAZ), Intelsat (I), Associated British Foods (ABF), Bank of America (BAC), Chaarat Gold (CGH) and Lloyds Banking Group (LYG).

Shares of STAN 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 STAN stock can currently be purchased for approximately GBX 668.20.

Standard Chartered has a market capitalization of £22.10 billion and generates £13.98 billion in revenue each year. Standard Chartered employs 82,827 workers across the globe.

The official website for Standard Chartered is https://www.sc.com/en/.

Standard Chartered's mailing address is 1 Basinghall Avenue, LONDON, EC2V 5DD, United Kingdom. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at +44-20-78858888.