NASDAQ:AYAtlantica Yield Stock Price, Forecast & News

Atlantica Yield's stock was trading at $24.87 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, AY shares have increased by 19.1% and is now trading at $29.62. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Atlantica Yield in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Atlantica Yield.

Atlantica Yield is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 5th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Atlantica Yield.

Atlantica Yield PLC (NASDAQ:AY) posted its earnings results on Thursday, May, 7th. The utilities provider reported ($0.40) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.11) by $0.29. The utilities provider earned $210.40 million during the quarter. Atlantica Yield had a return on equity of 1.92% and a net margin of 3.23%. View Atlantica Yield's earnings history.

Atlantica Yield announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, May 8th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.41 per share on Monday, June 15th. This represents a $1.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 5.54%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, May 29th. View Atlantica Yield's dividend history.

4 analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Atlantica Yield's stock. Their forecasts range from $26.00 to $34.00. On average, they expect Atlantica Yield's stock price to reach $31.75 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 7.2% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Atlantica Yield.

Press coverage about AY stock has trended somewhat negative this week, according to InfoTrie. The research group rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Atlantica Yield earned a media sentiment score of -1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View the latest news about Atlantica Yield.

Atlantica Yield saw a increase in short interest in June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 745,300 shares, an increase of 6.2% from the June 15th total of 702,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 469,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.6 days. Approximately 1.3% of the company's shares are short sold. View Atlantica Yield's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Atlantica Yield investors own include AT&T (T), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (BPT), AbbVie (ABBV), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), New Residential Investment (NRZ), Verizon Communications (VZ), Enbridge (ENB), Iron Mountain (IRM) and Pfizer (PFE).

Atlantica Yield trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "AY."

Atlantica Yield's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.03%) and Mount Yale Investment Advisors LLC (0.01%).

AY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Envestnet Asset Management Inc., and Mount Yale Investment Advisors LLC.

Shares of AY can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of AY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $29.62.

Atlantica Yield has a market capitalization of $3.01 billion and generates $1.01 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $62.13 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.61 on an earnings per share basis. Atlantica Yield employs 217 workers across the globe.

The official website for Atlantica Yield is www.atlanticayield.com.

Atlantica Yield's mailing address is GREAT WEST HOUSE GW1 17TH FLOOR GREAT WEST ROAD, BRENTFORD X0, TW8 9DF. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 44-20-3499-0465 or via email at [email protected]