Cowen Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:COWN)

Cowen trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "COWN."

Cowen's stock reverse split on the morning of Monday, December 5th 2016. The 1-4 reverse split was announced on Wednesday, November 9th 2016. The number of shares owned by shareholders was adjusted after the market closes on Friday, December 2nd 2016. An investor that had 100 shares of Cowen stock prior to the reverse split would have 25 shares after the split.

Cowen announced that its board has authorized a share repurchase plan on Friday, February 16th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $23,600,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are often a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Cowen Inc (NASDAQ:COWN) released its quarterly earnings results on Friday, July, 26th. The financial services provider reported $0.49 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.41 by $0.08. The financial services provider had revenue of $244.40 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $230.19 million. Cowen had a return on equity of 8.32% and a net margin of 3.72%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 4.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.71 EPS. View Cowen's Earnings History.

Cowen is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Cowen.

Cowen will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, October 24th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

1 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Cowen's stock. Their predictions range from $20.00 to $20.00. On average, they expect Cowen's share price to reach $20.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 39.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Cowen.

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

Media headlines about COWN stock have trended very negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Cowen earned a coverage optimism score of -3.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the financial services provider a news buzz of 3.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Cowen.

Cowen saw a drop in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 4,150,000 shares, a drop of 6.7% from the August 30th total of 4,450,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 280,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 14.8 days. Approximately 15.4% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Cowen's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Cowen include Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), Charles Schwab (SCHW), TD Ameritrade (AMTD), Raymond James (RJF), E*TRADE Financial (ETFC), LPL Financial (LPLA), Lazard (LAZ), Stifel Financial (SF), Evercore (EVR), BGC Partners (BGCP), Piper Jaffray Companies (PJC), INTL Fcstone (INTL), Oppenheimer (OPY) and Greenhill & Co., Inc. (GHL).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Cowen investors own include CROWN CASTLE IN/SH SH (CCI), Canopy Growth (CGC), Corbus Pharmaceuticals (CRBP), Opko Health (OPK), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), General Electric (GE), Just Energy Group (JE), U.S. Silica (SLCA), Tellurian (TELL) and Tilray (TLRY).

Cowen's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co. (0.20%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.04%) and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.01%). Company insiders that own Cowen stock include Brett H Barth, Cowen Inc, Owen S Littman and Peter A Cohen. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Cowen.

COWN stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co., Envestnet Asset Management Inc. and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank . Company insiders that have bought Cowen stock in the last two years include Brett H Barth and Cowen Inc. View Insider Buying and Selling for Cowen.

Shares of COWN 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 COWN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $14.37.

Cowen has a market capitalization of $424.20 million and generates $966.92 million in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $42.82 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.63 on an earnings per share basis. Cowen employs 1,212 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Cowen.

The official website for Cowen is http://www.cowen.com/.

Cowen's mailing address is 599 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK NY, 10022. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 646-562-1000 or via email at [email protected]