Casey's General Stores Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:CASY)

Casey's General Stores trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "CASY."

Casey's General Stores declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, September 9th. Shareholders of record on Friday, November 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.32 per share on Friday, November 15th. This represents a $1.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.78%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, October 31st. View Casey's General Stores' Dividend History.

Casey's General Stores declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback plan on Thursday, March 8th 2018, which allows the company to buyback $300,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are typically an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Casey's General Stores Inc (NASDAQ:CASY) posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, September, 9th. The company reported $2.31 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.03 by $0.28. The firm earned $2.63 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.59 billion. Casey's General Stores had a return on equity of 15.55% and a net margin of 2.34%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 1.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.90 EPS. View Casey's General Stores' Earnings History.

Casey's General Stores is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, December 9th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Casey's General Stores.

11 analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Casey's General Stores' shares. Their forecasts range from $158.00 to $197.00. On average, they expect Casey's General Stores' stock price to reach $175.56 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 7.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Casey's General Stores.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Casey's General Stores in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Casey's General Stores.

News coverage about CASY stock has trended somewhat negative on Friday, according to InfoTrie. The research firm scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Casey's General Stores earned a news sentiment score of -1.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Casey's General Stores.

Casey's General Stores saw a increase in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 1,470,000 shares, an increase of 8.1% from the August 30th total of 1,360,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 332,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.4 days. Approximately 4.0% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Casey's General Stores' Current Options Chain.

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Casey's General Stores' stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Scout Investments Inc. (1.44%), Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (1.34%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.33%), Pwmco LLC (0.25%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.15%) and Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.08%). Company insiders that own Casey's General Stores stock include Allison M Wing, Brian Joseph Johnson, Cara Kay Heiden, David K Lenhardt, H Lynn Horak, Julia L Jackowski, Terry W Handley and William J Walljasper. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Casey's General Stores.

CASY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Pwmco LLC, Hennessy Advisors Inc., State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Pacer Advisors Inc., First Bank & Trust, Nwam LLC and Bremer Bank National Association. Company insiders that have sold Casey's General Stores company stock in the last year include Allison M Wing, Brian Joseph Johnson, H Lynn Horak, Julia L Jackowski, Terry W Handley and William J Walljasper. View Insider Buying and Selling for Casey's General Stores.

CASY stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Scout Investments Inc., Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Meeder Asset Management Inc., We Are One Seven LLC, Fox Run Management L.L.C., Ackerman Capital Advisors LLC, Envestnet Asset Management Inc. and NEXT Financial Group Inc. Company insiders that have bought Casey's General Stores stock in the last two years include Cara Kay Heiden and David K Lenhardt. View Insider Buying and Selling for Casey's General Stores.

Shares of CASY 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 CASY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $163.68.

Casey's General Stores has a market capitalization of $6.02 billion and generates $9.35 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $203.89 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.51 on an earnings per share basis. Casey's General Stores employs 36,841 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Casey's General Stores.

The official website for Casey's General Stores is http://www.caseys.com/.

Casey's General Stores' mailing address is ONE CONVENIENCE BOULEVARD, ANKENY IA, 50021. The company can be reached via phone at 515-965-6100 or via email at [email protected]