NASDAQ:AYAtlantica Yield Stock Price, Forecast & News

Atlantica Yield's stock was trading at $24.87 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (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) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May, 7th. The utilities provider reported ($0.40) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate 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 declared 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 6.19%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 29th. View Atlantica Yield's dividend history.

4 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for Atlantica Yield's stock. Their forecasts range from $26.00 to $34.00. On average, they anticipate Atlantica Yield's stock 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.

Press coverage about AY stock has been trending somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Atlantica Yield earned a coverage optimism score of -1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. 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 short-interest ratio is presently 1.1 days. Currently, 1.1% of the company's stock 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 many different 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]