NASDAQ:SPKESpark Energy Stock Price, Forecast & News

Spark Energy's stock was trading at $8.19 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, SPKE stock has decreased by 17.9% and is now trading at $6.72. 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 analysts' consensus estimates of $0.02 by $0.18. The utilities provider earned $166.68 million during the quarter. Spark Energy had a net margin of 1.65% and a return on equity of 32.94%. View Spark Energy's earnings history.

Spark Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, April 21st. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.181 per share on Monday, June 15th. This represents a $0.72 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 10.77%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, May 29th. View Spark Energy's dividend history.

Spark Energy's stock split on the morning of Monday, June 19th 2017. The 2-1 split was announced on Tuesday, May 23rd 2017. The newly minted shares were distributed to shareholders after the closing bell 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 12 month target prices for Spark Energy's shares. Their forecasts range from $8.00 to $8.00. On average, they expect Spark Energy's stock price to reach $8.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 19.0% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Spark Energy.

Press coverage about SPKE stock has trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Spark Energy earned a media sentiment score of -1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View the latest news about Spark Energy.

Some companies that are related to Spark Energy include Duke Energy (DUK), Exelon (EXC), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), E.ON SE Sponsored ADR (Germany) (EONGY), Consolidated Edison (ED), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), Evergy (EVRG), Alliant Energy (LNT), NiSource (NI), United Utilities Group (UUGRY), PG&E (PCG), ALLETE (ALE) and NorthWestern (NWE). 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 many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Sanders Morris Harris LLC (0.73%). 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 Sanders Morris Harris LLC. 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 $6.72.

Spark Energy has a market capitalization of $237.28 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]