Cowen Stock Forecast, Price & News

Cowen's stock was trading at $11.62 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, COWN shares have increased by 133.9% and is now trading at $27.18.
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4 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Cowen in the last twelve months. There are currently 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" Cowen stock.
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1,448 employees have rated Cowen CEO Doug Parker on Glassdoor.com. Doug Parker has an approval rating of 60% among Cowen's employees. This puts Doug Parker in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Cowen is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 11th 2021.
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Cowen will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 11th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Cowen Inc. (NASDAQ:COWN) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October, 27th. The financial services provider reported $1.25 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.48 by $0.77. The financial services provider earned $274.29 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $229.09 million. Cowen had a net margin of 9.49% and a return on equity of 21.67%.
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Cowen announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 28th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, December 1st will be given a dividend of $0.08 per share on Tuesday, December 15th. This represents a $0.32 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.18%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, November 30th. This is a boost from Cowen's previous quarterly dividend of $0.04.
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Cowen pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.15%. The dividend payout ratio of Cowen is 14.48%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Cowen will have a dividend payout ratio of 6.71% next year. This indicates that Cowen will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Cowen shares reverse split before market open on 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 closing bell 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.

4 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Cowen's shares. Their forecasts range from $18.00 to $35.00. On average, they anticipate Cowen's share price to reach $26.25 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.4%.
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Cowen saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totaling 5,830,000 shares, an increase of 16.4% from the December 15th total of 5,010,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 441,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 13.2 days. Currently, 23.8% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Cowen investors own include Crown Castle International (CCI), (CGC), OPKO Health (OPK), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Corbus Pharmaceuticals (CRBP), Raytheon Technologies (RTX), AbbVie (ABBV), Ampio Pharmaceuticals (AMPE) and KushCo (KSHB).

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

Cowen's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include YorkBridge Wealth Partners LLC (0.43%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.27%), First Hawaiian Bank (0.10%) and Founders Capital Management (0.00%). Company insiders that own Cowen stock include Brett H Barth, Cowen Inc, Jeffrey M Solomon, Lawrence E Leibowitz and Owen S Littman.
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COWN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, and First Hawaiian Bank.
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COWN stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including YorkBridge Wealth Partners LLC, and Founders Capital Management. Company insiders that have bought Cowen stock in the last two years include Brett H Barth, Cowen Inc, Jeffrey M Solomon, Lawrence E Leibowitz, and Owen S Littman.
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Shares of COWN can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of COWN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $27.18.

Cowen has a market capitalization of $722.15 million and generates $1.05 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $24.63 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.21 on an earnings per share basis. Cowen employs 1,325 workers across the globe.

The official website for Cowen is 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]