Amgen Stock Forecast, Price & News

25 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Amgen in the last twelve months. There are currently 11 hold ratings and 14 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" Amgen stock.
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Amgen is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 29th 2021.
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Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ:AMGN) released its quarterly earnings results on Monday, February, 1st. The medical research company reported $3.81 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $3.39 by $0.42. The medical research company had revenue of $6.63 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.57 billion. Amgen had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 95.55% and a net margin of 29.42%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 7.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $3.64 EPS.
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Amgen's stock was trading at $198.65 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, AMGN stock has increased by 14.6% and is now trading at $227.73.
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Amgen announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, March 3rd. Stockholders of record on Monday, May 17th will be given a dividend of $1.76 per share on Tuesday, June 8th. This represents a $7.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.09%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 14th.
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Amgen pays an annual dividend of $7.04 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.14%. Amgen does not yet have a strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Amgen is 47.50%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Amgen will have a dividend payout ratio of 41.41% next year. This indicates that Amgen will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Amgen updated its FY 2021 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Thursday, March, 4th. The company provided EPS guidance of 16.00-17.00 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $16.85. The company issued revenue guidance of $25.8-26.6 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $26.47 billion.

25 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Amgen's stock. Their forecasts range from $215.00 to $304.00. On average, they anticipate Amgen's stock price to reach $257.22 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 12.9% from the stock's current price.
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806 employees have rated Amgen CEO Robert A. Bradway on Glassdoor.com. Robert A. Bradway has an approval rating of 91% among Amgen's employees. This puts Robert A. Bradway in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Amgen trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "AMGN."

Amgen's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.21%), Primecap Management Co. CA (2.92%), FMR LLC (2.37%), Morgan Stanley (1.69%), Northern Trust Corp (1.36%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.12%). Company insiders that own Amgen stock include Cynthia M Patton, David Piacquad, David W Meline, Jonathan P Graham, R Sanders Williams and Ronald D Sugar.
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AMGN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company , Primecap Management Co. CA, FMR LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Amgen company stock in the last year include Jonathan P Graham, R Sanders Williams, and Ronald D Sugar.
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AMGN stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Norges Bank, Morgan Stanley, Boston Partners, FIL Ltd, Beutel Goodman & Co Ltd., Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Voloridge Investment Management LLC, and Janus Henderson Group PLC.
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One share of AMGN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $227.73.

Amgen has a market capitalization of $131.53 billion and generates $23.36 billion in revenue each year. The medical research company earns $7.84 billion in net income (profit) each year or $14.82 on an earnings per share basis.

Amgen employs 23,400 workers across the globe.

The following companies are subsidiares of Amgen: ATL Holdings II Limited, ATL Holdings Limited, Abgenix, Alantos Pharmaceuticals, Amgen (Europe) GmbH, Amgen Canada Inc., Amgen Fremont Inc., Amgen Global Finance B.V., Amgen GmbH Germany, Amgen Holding No. 1 Limited, Amgen K-A Inc., Amgen Manufacturing Limited, Amgen Rockville Inc., Amgen S.A.S., Amgen SF LLC, Amgen Technology, Amgen Technology (Ireland) Unlimited Company, Amgen USA Inc., Amgen Worldwide Holdings B.V., Avidia, Bergamo, BioVex, BioVex Inc., Catherex, DeCODE Genetics, Dezima Pharma, Filgrastim and Pegfilgrastim, Ilypsa, Immunex, Immunex Corporation, Immunex Rhode Island Corporation, KAI Pharmaceuticals, Kinetix Pharmaceuticals, Laboratorio Quimico Farmaceutico Bergamo, MN Pharmaceuticals, Micromet, Nuevolution, Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc., Onyx Therapeutics Inc., Otezla, Synergen, and Tularik.

Amgen was founded in 1980.

The official website for Amgen is www.amgen.com.

Amgen is headquartered at ONE AMGEN CENTER DRIVE, THOUSAND OAKS CA, 91320.

Amgen's mailing address is ONE AMGEN CENTER DRIVE, THOUSAND OAKS CA, 91320. The medical research company can be reached via phone at 805-447-1000 or via email at [email protected]