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 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.66%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, March 19th. View PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1's Dividend History.

PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 saw a increase in short interest during the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totalling 59,034,939 shares, an increase of 18.6% from the April 13th total of 49,785,731 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 42,141,724 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.4 days. Approximately 15.9% of the company's stock are sold short.

Some companies that are related to PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 include HSBC (HSBC), Ping An Insurance (PNGAY), Citigroup (C), HSBC (HSBA), Toronto–Dominion Bank (TD), Royal Bank of Canada (RY), Toronto–Dominion Bank (TD), Commonwealth Bank (CBAUF), Allianz (AZSEY), Scotiabank (BNS), Santander Group (SAN), Morgan Stanley (MS), BNP Paribas (BNPQY), Goldman Sachs (GS) and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MTU).

Media stories about QQQ stock have trended somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than twenty million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 earned a media sentiment score of 0.01 on Accern's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the exchange traded fund an impact score of 44.49 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future.

PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors 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 bought 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 $168.40.

PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 has a market capitalization of $64.20 billion.