NASDAQ:QQQ - PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 Stock Price, Price Target & More

PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "QQQ."

PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, March 19th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, March 20th will be given a dividend of $0.2766 per share on Monday, April 30th. This represents a $1.11 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.63%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, March 19th. View PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1's Dividend History.

PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 saw a decline in short interest in May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 47,780,338 shares, a decline of 15.3% from the May 15th total of 56,392,254 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 27,281,839 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.8 days. Currently, 12.3% of the shares of the company are short sold.

Some companies that are related to PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 include HSBC (HSBC), PING AN Ins Grp/S (PNGAY), Citigroup (C), HSBC (HSBA), Toronto–Dominion Bank (TD), Royal Bank of Canada (RY), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBAUF), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), Allianz (AZSEY), Morgan Stanley (MS), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MTU), HDFC Bank (HDB), Goldman Sachs Group (GS) and Banco Santander (SAN).

News stories about QQQ stock have trended somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than 20 million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 earned a media sentiment score of 0.13 on Accern's scale. They also assigned headlines about the exchange traded fund an impact score of 45.80 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future.

PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Natixis (0.89%), Summit Trail Advisors LLC (0.45%), Commonwealth Equity Services LLC (0.34%), Windhaven Investment Management Inc. (0.33%), US Bancorp DE (0.32%) and Mizuho Bank Ltd. (0.28%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1.

QQQ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Windhaven Investment Management Inc., Bailard Inc., Pictet North America Advisors SA, Transamerica Financial Advisors Inc., US Bancorp DE, Mizuho Bank Ltd., Banque Pictet & Cie SA and Delek Group Ltd.. View Insider Buying and Selling for PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1.

QQQ stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Natixis, Summit Trail Advisors LLC, Susquehanna Foundation, ING Groep NV, Koch Industries Inc., Viridian Ria LLC, D Orazio & Associates Inc. and Strategic Wealth Advisors Group LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1.

Shares of QQQ 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of QQQ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $176.98.

PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 has a market capitalization of $66.65 billion.