Navient Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:NAVI)

Navient trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "NAVI."

Navient announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 8th. Shareholders of record on Friday, September 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.16 per share on Friday, September 20th. This represents a $0.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 5.32%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 5th. View Navient's Dividend History.

Navient Corp (NASDAQ:NAVI) released its earnings results on Tuesday, July, 23rd. The credit services provider reported $0.74 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.54 by $0.20. The credit services provider earned $296 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $296.50 million. Navient had a return on equity of 16.82% and a net margin of 8.14%. Navient's revenue was down 7.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.52 EPS. View Navient's Earnings History.

Navient is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 22nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Navient.

Navient will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, October 22nd at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Navient's stock. Their forecasts range from $14.50 to $18.00. On average, they expect Navient's share price to reach $16.20 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 34.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Navient.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Navient in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Navient.

News stories about NAVI stock have trended very negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Navient earned a media sentiment score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the credit services provider a news buzz of 8.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is very likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Navient.

Navient saw a increase in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 12,000,000 shares, an increase of 8.5% from the August 30th total of 11,060,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,920,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 6.3 days. Approximately 5.3% of the company's shares are sold short. View Navient's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Navient include SEI Investments (SEIC), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), Stifel Financial (SF), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Futu (FHL), Waddell & Reed Financial (WDR), Piper Jaffray Companies (PJC), Associated Capital Group (AC), Freedom (FRHC), Wisdom Tree Investments (WETF), Gamco Investors (GBL), Cowen (COWN), Oppenheimer (OPY), Greenhill & Co., Inc. (GHL) and Siebert Financial (SIEB).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Navient investors own include Opko Health (OPK), Apple Hospitality REIT (APLE), General Electric (GE), AT&T (T), Intel (INTC), Bank of America (BAC), Micron Technology (MU), Starbucks (SBUX), Ford Motor (F) and Cisco Systems (CSCO).

Navient's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.03%), Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. (0.02%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%), Silverleafe Capital Partners LLC (0.01%), First National Bank of Mount Dora Trust Investment Services (0.01%) and Fox Run Management L.L.C. (0.01%). Company insiders that own Navient stock include Canyon Capital Advisors Llc, Christian M Lown and Stephen M Hauber. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Navient.

NAVI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pacer Advisors Inc., First National Bank of Mount Dora Trust Investment Services and Crossmark Global Holdings Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Navient company stock in the last year include Canyon Capital Advisors Llc and Stephen M Hauber. View Insider Buying and Selling for Navient.

NAVI stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Silverleafe Capital Partners LLC, Fox Run Management L.L.C. and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. View Insider Buying and Selling for Navient.

Shares of NAVI 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 NAVI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $12.02.

Navient has a market capitalization of $2.77 billion and generates $5.61 billion in revenue each year. The credit services provider earns $395 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.09 on an earnings per share basis. Navient employs 6,500 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Navient.

The official website for Navient is http://www.navient.com/.

Navient's mailing address is 123 JUSTISON STREET, WILMINGTON DE, 19801. The credit services provider can be reached via phone at 302-283-8000 or via email at [email protected]