NASDAQ:NGHC - National General Stock Price, Forecast & News

National General trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "NGHC."

National General declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 20th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, April 1st will be given a dividend of $0.05 per share on Tuesday, April 14th. This represents a $0.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.94%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, March 31st. View National General's Dividend History.

National General Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:NGHC) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February, 20th. The insurance provider reported $0.72 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.59 by $0.13. The insurance provider earned $1.31 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.40 billion. National General had a return on equity of 16.89% and a net margin of 6.55%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 14.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.30 EPS. View National General's Earnings History.

National General is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, May 4th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for National General.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for National General's stock. Their forecasts range from $33.00 to $36.00. On average, they expect National General's share price to reach $35.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 64.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for National General.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for National General in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for National General.

News coverage about NGHC stock has trended somewhat positive on Wednesday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news 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. National General earned a daily sentiment score of 1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the insurance provider a news buzz of 8.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is very likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for National General.

National General saw a decrease in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 404,400 shares, a decrease of 5.3% from the December 31st total of 427,200 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 278,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.5 days. Currently, 0.6% of the company's stock are short sold. View National General's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to National General include American Financial Group (AFG), RenaissanceRe (RNR), Axis Capital (AXS), Hanover Insurance Group (THG), Kemper (KMPR), Enstar Group (ESGR), RLI (RLI), Selective Insurance Group (SIGI), White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM), Kinsale Capital Group (KNSL), Mercury General (MCY), Horace Mann Educators (HMN), ProAssurance (PRA), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT) and Amerisafe (AMSF).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other National General investors own include Intelsat (I), Fossil Group (FOSL), AMC Entertainment (AMC), Bank of America (BAC), Apollo Global Management (APO), Associated British Foods (ABF), Chaarat Gold (CGH), China Unicom (Hong Kong) (CHU), Ciena (CIEN) and First Data (FDC).

National General's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Boston Partners (2.17%), State Street Corp (1.24%), Nut Tree Capital Management LP (1.21%), Geode Capital Management LLC (0.93%), Pembroke Management LTD (0.89%) and Philadelphia Financial Management of San Francisco LLC (0.82%). Company insiders that own National General stock include Barry Karfunkel, Michael Hal Weiner, Peter A Rendall, Robert Karfunkel and Thomas Newgarden. View Institutional Ownership Trends for National General.

NGHC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Snow Capital Management LP, PNC Financial Services Group Inc., AJO LP, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Bank of America Corp DE, Oxford Asset Management LLP, Principal Financial Group Inc. and Credit Suisse AG. Company insiders that have sold National General company stock in the last year include Michael Hal Weiner and Peter A Rendall. View Insider Buying and Selling for National General.

NGHC stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Philadelphia Financial Management of San Francisco LLC, Nut Tree Capital Management LP, Maverick Capital Ltd., Bank of Montreal Can, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Panagora Asset Management Inc., Algert Global LLC and Prudential Financial Inc.. Company insiders that have bought National General stock in the last two years include Barry Karfunkel and Robert Karfunkel. View Insider Buying and Selling for National General.

Shares of NGHC 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 NGHC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $21.26.

National General has a market capitalization of $2.41 billion and generates $5.18 billion in revenue each year. The insurance provider earns $348.07 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.75 on an earnings per share basis. National General employs 8,440 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About National General.

The official website for National General is http://www.nationalgeneral.com/.

National General's mailing address is 59 MAIDEN LANE 38TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY, 10038. The insurance provider can be reached via phone at 212-380-9500 or via email at [email protected]