NASDAQ:UMPQ - Umpqua Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Umpqua trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "UMPQ."

Umpqua announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, September 14th. Shareholders of record on Friday, September 28th will be given a dividend of $0.21 per share on Monday, October 15th. This represents a $0.84 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.31%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 27th. This is an increase from Umpqua's previous quarterly dividend of $0.20. View Umpqua's Dividend History.

Umpqua Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:UMPQ) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 17th. The bank reported $0.41 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.36 by $0.05. The bank earned $313.76 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $309.37 million. Umpqua had a net margin of 24.23% and a return on equity of 7.74%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.28 EPS. View Umpqua's Earnings History.

Umpqua is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 22nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Umpqua.

11 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Umpqua's shares. Their forecasts range from $20.00 to $27.00. On average, they expect Umpqua's share price to reach $24.0833 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 23.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Umpqua.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Umpqua in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Umpqua.

News coverage about UMPQ stock has been trending neutral this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Umpqua earned a coverage optimism score of 0.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the bank a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

Umpqua saw a drop in short interest in October. As of October 15th, there was short interest totalling 3,373,336 shares, a drop of 27.7% from the September 28th total of 4,668,425 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,577,748 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.1 days. Currently, 1.5% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Umpqua's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Umpqua include E*TRADE Financial (ETFC), People's United Financial (PBCT), TFS Financial (TFSL), BankUnited (BKU), Provident Financial Services (PFS), LegacyTexas Financial Group (LTXB), Axos Financial (AX), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Flagstar Bancorp (FBC), Kearny Financial (KRNY), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), Meta Financial Group (CASH) and Northfield Bancorp (NFBK).

Umpqua's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.81%), Capital World Investors (5.79%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (2.92%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.72%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (2.56%) and Fisher Asset Management LLC (1.60%). Company insiders that own Umpqua stock include Raymond P Davis and Ron L Farnsworth. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Umpqua.

UMPQ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Capital World Investors, Deutsche Bank AG, Teachers Advisors LLC, Nordea Investment Management AB, Bank of New York Mellon Corp and AXA. View Insider Buying and Selling for Umpqua.

UMPQ stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Alliancebernstein L.P., Handelsbanken Fonder AB, Allianz Asset Management GmbH, BlackRock Inc., First Trust Advisors LP, First Quadrant L P CA, Scout Investments Inc. and SG Americas Securities LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Umpqua.

Shares of UMPQ 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 UMPQ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $19.50.

Umpqua has a market capitalization of $4.20 billion and generates $1.22 billion in revenue each year. The bank earns $246.01 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.07 on an earnings per share basis. Umpqua employs 4,380 workers across the globe.

The official website for Umpqua is http://www.umpquabank.com.

Umpqua's mailing address is ONE SW COLUMBIA STREET SUITE 1200, PORTLAND OR, 97258. The bank can be reached via phone at 503-727-4100 or via email at [email protected]