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 stock has increased by 6.5% and is now trading at $26.48. 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 2 hold ratings and 2 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) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May, 7th. The utilities provider reported ($0.40) earnings per share 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 net margin of 3.23% and a return on equity of 1.92%. 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 given a dividend of $0.41 per share on Monday, June 15th. This represents a $1.64 annualized dividend and a yield of 6.19%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 29th. View Atlantica Yield's dividend history.

4 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Atlantica Yield's shares. Their forecasts range from $26.00 to $34.00. On average, they expect Atlantica Yield's share price to reach $30.25 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 14.2% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Atlantica Yield.

Media coverage about AY stock has been trending very positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Atlantica Yield earned a news impact score of 3.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View the latest news aboutAtlantica Yield.

Atlantica Yield saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 666,600 shares, an increase of 9.4% from the April 30th total of 609,600 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 588,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.1 days. Approximately 1.1% of the company's shares are short sold. View Atlantica Yield's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Atlantica Yield include Vistra Energy (VST), RED ELECTRICA C/ADR (RDEIY), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), NRG Energy (NRG), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP), Enel Americas (ENIA), CENTRAIS ELETRI/S (EBR.B), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), CENTRAIS ELETRI/S (EBR), ENGIE BRASIL EN/S (EGIEY), OGE Energy (OGE), Huaneng Power International Inc ADR Class N (HNP), IDACORP (IDA) and Enel Generacion Chile (EOCC). View all competitors.

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 variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Morgan Stanley (9.09%), Morgan Stanley (9.09%), Acadian Asset Management LLC (2.87%), Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP (2.24%), BlackRock Inc. (1.86%) and Invesco Ltd. (1.46%).

AY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley, Two Sigma Investments LP, Acadian Asset Management LLC, UBS Group AG, Two Sigma Advisers LP, Engineers Gate Manager LP, and Picton Mahoney Asset Management.

AY stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP, McGowan Group Asset Management Inc., Legal & General Group Plc, Wellington Management Group LLP, Tortoise Capital Advisors L.L.C., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, and Jupiter Asset Management Ltd..

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 $26.48.

Atlantica Yield has a market capitalization of $2.69 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]