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 announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, March 19th. Shareholders 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 yield of 0.65%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, March 19th. View PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1's Dividend History.

PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 saw a drop in short interest in May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totalling 56,392,254 shares, a drop of 4.5% from the April 30th total of 59,034,939 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 35,345,692 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.6 days. Approximately 15.2% 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), Scotiabank (BNS), Allianz (AZSEY), Santander Group (SAN), Morgan Stanley (MS), BNP Paribas (BNPQY), Goldman Sachs Group (GS) and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MTU).

News stories about QQQ stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by analyzing more than 20 million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 earned a news sentiment score of 0.07 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the exchange traded fund an impact score of 46.56 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term.

PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1's stock is owned by a variety 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 purchased 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 $170.03.

PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 has a market capitalization of $64.96 billion.