Amgen Stock Forecast, Price & News

25 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Amgen in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 9 hold ratings and 14 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" Amgen stock. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in AMGN, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Amgen is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, July 27th 2021.
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Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ:AMGN) posted its earnings results on Monday, April, 26th. The medical research company reported $3.70 EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $4.05 by $0.35. The medical research company had revenue of $5.90 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $6.30 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 down 4.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business earned $4.17 earnings per share.
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Amgen's stock was trading at $198.65 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, AMGN shares have increased by 27.3% and is now trading at $252.87.
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Amgen announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, March 3rd. Shareholders 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 2.78%. 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 2.80%. 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 issued an update on its FY 2021 earnings guidance on Tuesday, May, 4th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 16.000-17.000 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $16.800. The company issued revenue guidance of $25.80 billion-$26.60 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $26.41 billion.

25 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Amgen's shares. Their forecasts range from $200.00 to $300.00. On average, they anticipate Amgen's share price to reach $255.86 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1.2% 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 variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (8.49%), Primecap Management Co. CA (2.90%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.68%), Northern Trust Corp (1.35%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.11%) and Clearbridge Investments LLC (1.01%). Company insiders that own Amgen stock include Cynthia M Patton, David Piacquad, David W Meline, Jonathan P Graham, Nancy A Grygiel, 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 Capital International Investors, Primecap Management Co. CA, DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, Fiera Capital Corp, APG Asset Management N.V., Northern Trust Corp, Renaissance Technologies LLC, and Assetmark Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Amgen company stock in the last year include Jonathan P Graham, Nancy A Grygiel, 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 FIL Ltd, Franklin Resources Inc., BlackRock Inc., Geode Capital Management LLC, Nordea Investment Management AB, Wilkinson Global Asset Management LLC, Cohen Investment Advisors LLC, and Clarus Group Inc..
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One share of AMGN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $252.87.

Amgen has a market capitalization of $145.29 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 24,300 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]