NYSE:ABB - ABB Stock Price, News, & Analysis

ABB trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ABB."

ABB announced an annual dividend on Thursday, March 1st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, April 5th will be paid a dividend of $0.8261 per share on Tuesday, May 15th. This represents a dividend yield of 3.44%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, April 4th. This is a boost from ABB's previous annual dividend of $0.75. View ABB's Dividend History.

ABB Ltd (NYSE:ABB) posted its earnings results on Thursday, October, 25th. The industrial products company reported $0.34 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.38 by $0.04. The industrial products company had revenue of $9.26 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $9.46 billion. ABB had a return on equity of 19.99% and a net margin of 6.24%. View ABB's Earnings History.

ABB is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 28th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for ABB.

15 brokerages have issued 12-month price targets for ABB's shares. Their forecasts range from $17.00 to $23.00. On average, they anticipate ABB's stock price to reach $20.12 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for ABB.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for ABB in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for ABB.

Headlines about ABB stock have trended neutral on Saturday, according to InfoTrie. The research group identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. ABB earned a news impact score of 0.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the industrial products company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days.

ABB saw a increase in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,469,161 shares, an increase of 74.9% from the January 15th total of 1,984,051 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 3,699,928 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 0.9 days. Approximately 0.2% of the company's stock are short sold. View ABB's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to ABB include Caterpillar (CAT), Bouygues (BOUYF), Deere & Company (DE), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), SCHNEIDER ELEC /ADR (SBGSY), Emerson Electric (EMR), MURATA MFG CO L/ADR (MRAAY), FANUC LTD JAPAN/ADR (FANUY), Eaton (ETN), Roper Technologies (ROP), Johnson Controls International (JCI), Mitsui & Co Ltd (MITSY), Ingersoll-Rand (IR), Komatsu (KMTUY) and ATLAS COPCO AB/S (ATLKY).

ABB's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.52%), Northern Trust Corp (0.27%), Bank of America Corp DE (0.25%), BlackRock Inc. (0.20%), Hamlin Capital Management LLC (0.17%) and Macquarie Group Ltd. (0.15%).

ABB stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of America Corp DE, Schafer Cullen Capital Management Inc, Macquarie Group Ltd., Sonora Investment Management LLC, Northern Trust Corp, Raymond James & Associates, Bank of New York Mellon Corp and Ledyard National Bank.

ABB stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fisher Asset Management LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, OLD Mission Capital LLC, BlackRock Inc., Segantii Capital Management Ltd, White Pine Investment CO, Beach Investment Counsel Inc. PA and Graves Light Private Wealth Management Inc..

Shares of ABB 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 ABB stock can currently be purchased for approximately $19.82.

ABB has a market capitalization of $42.39 billion and generates $34.31 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $2.21 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.25 on an earnings per share basis. ABB employs 134,800 workers across the globe.

The official website for ABB is http://www.abb.com.

ABB's mailing address is Affolternstrasse 44, Zurich V8, CH 8050. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 41-43-317-7111 or via email at [email protected]