NASDAQ:SPKESpark Energy Stock Price, Forecast & News

Spark Energy's stock was trading at $8.19 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, SPKE stock has increased by 4.9% and is now trading at $8.59. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Spark Energy in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Spark Energy.

Spark Energy is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 13th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Spark Energy.

Spark Energy Inc (NASDAQ:SPKE) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May, 5th. The utilities provider reported $0.20 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.02 by $0.18. The utilities provider had revenue of $166.68 million for the quarter. Spark Energy had a return on equity of 32.94% and a net margin of 1.65%. View Spark Energy's earnings history.

Spark Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, April 21st. Shareholders of record on Monday, June 1st will be given a dividend of $0.181 per share on Monday, June 15th. This represents a $0.72 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 8.43%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, May 29th. View Spark Energy's dividend history.

Spark Energy shares split on the morning of Monday, June 19th 2017. The 2-1 split was announced on Tuesday, May 23rd 2017. The newly created shares were payable to shareholders after the market closes on Friday, June 16th 2017. An investor that had 100 shares of Spark Energy stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

1 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Spark Energy's stock. Their forecasts range from $8.00 to $8.00. On average, they anticipate Spark Energy's share price to reach $8.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.9%. View analysts' price targets for Spark Energy.

Headlines about SPKE stock have been trending negative recently, InfoTrie reports. The research group rates the sentiment of 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 nearest to five being the most favorable. Spark Energy earned a coverage optimism score of -2.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 9.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View the latest news aboutSpark Energy.

Spark Energy saw a drop in short interest in May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,890,000 shares, a drop of 12.5% from the April 30th total of 2,160,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 131,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 14.3 days. Approximately 16.6% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Spark Energy's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Spark Energy include Duke Energy (DUK), Exelon (EXC), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), E.ON SE Sponsored ADR (Germany) (EONGY), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), Evergy (EVRG), Alliant Energy (LNT), NiSource (NI), United Utilities Group (UUGRY), PG&E (PCG), NorthWestern (NWE) and ALLETE (ALE). View all competitors.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Spark Energy investors own include Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), AT&T (T), Apollo Global Management (APO), Bank of America (BAC), Intelsat (I), AMC Entertainment (AMC), Fossil Group (FOSL), Ring Energy (REI), Ring Energy (REI) and Two Harbors Investment (TWO).

Spark Energy trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "SPKE."

Spark Energy's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (2.90%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2.90%), Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC (0.82%), State Street Corp (0.62%), Geode Capital Management LLC (0.57%) and Alliancebernstein L.P. (0.53%). Company insiders that own Spark Energy stock include Gil Melman, James G Jones II, Jason K Garrett, Nathan Kroeker and W Keith Maxwell III. View institutional ownership trends for Spark Energy.

SPKE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Mackay Shields LLC, Wells Fargo & Company MN, Morgan Stanley, Geode Capital Management LLC, Engineers Gate Manager LP, UBS Group AG, and Deutsche Bank AG. View insider buying and selling activity for Spark Energy.

SPKE stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC, BlackRock Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Citigroup Inc., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, and Dynamic Technology Lab Private Ltd. Company insiders that have bought Spark Energy stock in the last two years include James G Jones II, Nathan Kroeker, and W Keith Maxwell III. View insider buying and selling activity for Spark Energy.

Shares of SPKE 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 SPKE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $8.59.

Spark Energy has a market capitalization of $303.31 million and generates $813.72 million in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $8.45 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.68 on an earnings per share basis. Spark Energy employs 176 workers across the globe.

The official website for Spark Energy is www.sparkenergy.com.

Spark Energy's mailing address is 12140 Wickchester Ln Suite 100, Houston TX, 77079. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 713-600-2600 or via email at [email protected]