NASDAQ:AY - Atlantica Yield Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Atlantica Yield declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, November 5th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 29th will be paid a dividend of $0.41 per share on Friday, December 13th. This represents a $1.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 5.85%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 27th. View Atlantica Yield's Dividend History.

Atlantica Yield PLC (NASDAQ:AY) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 7th. The utilities provider reported $0.43 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.67 by $0.24. The utilities provider earned $293.37 million during the quarter. Atlantica Yield had a negative return on equity of 0.95% and a negative net margin of 1.62%. View Atlantica Yield's Earnings History.

Atlantica Yield is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 27th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Atlantica Yield.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Atlantica Yield's stock. Their forecasts range from $27.00 to $27.00. On average, they expect Atlantica Yield's share price to reach $27.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.7%. View Analyst Price Targets for Atlantica Yield.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Atlantica Yield in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Atlantica Yield.

Headlines about AY stock have been trending very positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Atlantica Yield earned a news sentiment score of 3.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Atlantica Yield.

Atlantica Yield saw a increase in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,230,000 shares, an increase of 10.8% from the December 15th total of 1,110,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 400,400 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.1 days. Approximately 2.2% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Atlantica Yield's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Atlantica Yield include Vistra Energy (VST), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), ENGIE BRASIL EN/S (EGIEY), CPFL Energia (CPL), NRG Energy (NRG), OGE Energy (OGE), Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP), Huaneng Power International Inc ADR Class N (HNP), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), CHINA RESOURES/ADR (CRPJY), CENTRICA PLC/S (CPYYY), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE) and CEMIG (CIG).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Atlantica Yield investors own include BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (BPT), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), AT&T (T), AbbVie (ABBV), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Verizon Communications (VZ), Enbridge (ENB), Alibaba Group (BABA), Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Netflix (NFLX).

Atlantica Yield's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC (0.03%), Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.02%), First Hawaiian Bank (0.02%) and Raymond James Trust N.A. (0.01%).

AY stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank , First Hawaiian Bank, Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC and Raymond James Trust N.A..

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 $28.03.

Atlantica Yield has a market capitalization of $2.85 billion and generates $1.04 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $41.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.42 on an earnings per share basis. Atlantica Yield employs 217 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Atlantica Yield.

The official website for Atlantica Yield is http://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]