NASDAQ:SYMC - Symantec Stock Price, Price Target & More

Symantec trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "SYMC."

Symantec announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, May 10th. Stockholders of record on Friday, June 8th will be given a dividend of $0.075 per share on Wednesday, June 20th. This represents a $0.30 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.44%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, June 7th. View Symantec's Dividend History.

Symantec Co. (NASDAQ:SYMC) issued its earnings results on Thursday, May, 10th. The technology company reported $0.46 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.39 by $0.07. The technology company earned $1.23 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.19 billion. Symantec had a return on equity of 16.24% and a net margin of 23.98%. The business's revenue was up 4.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.28 earnings per share. View Symantec's Earnings History.

Symantec is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August, 1st 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Symantec.

Symantec updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Thursday, May, 10th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.50-1.65 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $1.80. The company issued revenue guidance of $4.76-4.90 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.94 billion.Symantec also updated its Q1 guidance to $0.31-0.35 EPS.

23 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Symantec's stock. Their predictions range from $18.85 to $40.00. On average, they anticipate Symantec's share price to reach $27.8147 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Symantec.

Symantec saw a drop in short interest in May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 18,837,805 shares, a drop of 27.4% from the May 15th total of 25,961,188 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 9,421,967 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.0 days. Currently, 3.1% of the company's stock are sold short. View Symantec's Current Options Chain.

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News stories about SYMC stock have trended somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Symantec earned a media sentiment score of 0.04 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the technology company an impact score of 45.51 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days.

Symantec's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.51%), Franklin Resources Inc. (4.69%), CI Global Investments Inc. (2.69%), Neuberger Berman Group LLC (1.20%), Northern Trust Corp (1.16%) and Legal & General Group Plc (0.58%). Company insiders that own Symantec stock include Amy L Cappellanti-Wolf, Anita M Sands, Francis C Rosch, Gregory S Clark, Mark S Garfield, Michael David Fey, Nicholas R Noviello, Roxane Divol, Scott C Taylor and Suzanne M Vautrinot. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Symantec.

SYMC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Foresters Investment Management Company Inc., Allianz Asset Management GmbH, Allianz Asset Management GmbH, Franklin Resources Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., Sei Investments Co., Swiss National Bank and KBC Group NV. Company insiders that have sold Symantec company stock in the last year include Amy L Cappellanti-Wolf, Anita M Sands, Francis C Rosch, Gregory S Clark, Michael David Fey, Nicholas R Noviello, Roxane Divol, Scott C Taylor and Suzanne M Vautrinot. View Insider Buying and Selling for Symantec.

SYMC stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including CI Global Investments Inc., Select Equity Group L.P., Eaton Vance Management, American Century Companies Inc., Element Capital Management LLC, Toronto Dominion Bank, BlackRock Inc. and Legal & General Group Plc. View Insider Buying and Selling for Symantec.

Shares of SYMC 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 SYMC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $20.80.

Symantec has a market capitalization of $13.05 billion and generates $4.85 billion in revenue each year. The technology company earns $1.16 billion in net income (profit) each year or $0.95 on an earnings per share basis. Symantec employs 13,000 workers across the globe.

Symantec's mailing address is 350 ELLIS STREET, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA, 94043. The technology company can be reached via phone at 650-527-8000.