Fulton Financial - FULT Stock Forecast, Price & News

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Fulton Financial in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" FULT shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in FULT, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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3 analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Fulton Financial's shares. Their FULT share price forecasts range from $14.00 to $20.50. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $18.20 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 29.7% from the stock's current price.
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Fulton Financial's stock was trading at $16.83 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, FULT stock has decreased by 16.6% and is now trading at $14.03.
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Fulton Financial saw a increase in short interest during the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 4,770,000 shares, an increase of 16.1% from the February 13th total of 4,110,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 946,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.0 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, April 18th 2023.
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Fulton Financial Co. (NASDAQ:FULT) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, January, 17th. The bank reported $0.48 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.50 by $0.02. The bank had revenue of $284.54 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $285.36 million. Fulton Financial had a net margin of 26.28% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 12.92%.

Fulton Financial announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, March 21st. Shareholders of record on Monday, April 3rd will be given a dividend of $0.15 per share on Friday, April 14th. This represents a $0.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.28%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 31st.
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Fulton Financial (NASDAQ:FULT) pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.97%. FULT has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company has been increasing its dividend for 2 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 35.93%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, FULT will have a dividend payout ratio of 31.41% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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17 employees have rated Fulton Financial Chief Executive Officer E Philip Wenger on Glassdoor.com. E Philip Wenger has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts E Philip Wenger in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Fulton Financial trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "FULT."

Fulton Financial's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (7.26%), Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. (2.18%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.90%), Millennium Management LLC (1.36%), Fulton Bank N.A. (1.14%) and Norges Bank (1.04%). Insiders that own company stock include Angela M Sargent, Angela M Snyder, Bernadette M Taylor, Curtis J Myers, Daniel R Stolzer, David M Campbell, David M Campbell, Ernest J Waters, George K Martin, George W Hodges, James R Moxley III, Meg R Mueller and Meg R Mueller.
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One share of FULT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $14.03.

Fulton Financial (NASDAQ:FULT) has a market capitalization of $2.34 billion and generates $1.09 billion in revenue each year. The bank earns $286.98 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.67 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 3,300 workers across the globe.

Fulton Financial's mailing address is ONE PENN SQUARE P. O. BOX 4887, LANCASTER PA, 17604. The official website for the company is www.fult.com. The bank can be reached via phone at (717) 291-2411, via email at jaweber@fult.com, or via fax at 717-291-2695.