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. Shareholders of record on Thursday, April 5th will be given a dividend of $0.8261 per share on Tuesday, May 15th. This represents a yield of 3.44%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, April 4th. This is an increase from ABB's previous annual dividend of $0.75. View ABB's Dividend History.

ABB Ltd (NYSE:ABB) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 25th. The industrial products company reported $0.34 EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.38 by $0.04. The industrial products company earned $9.26 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $9.46 billion. ABB had a net margin of 6.24% and a return on equity of 19.99%. 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 objectives for ABB's shares. Their predictions range from $17.00 to $23.00. On average, they expect ABB's stock price to reach $20.12 in the next year. 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.

Media stories about ABB stock have been trending very positive this week, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. ABB earned a media sentiment score of 3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the industrial products company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

ABB saw a increase in short interest in the month of 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 daily trading volume, of 3,699,928 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.9 days. Approximately 0.2% of the shares of the company 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), Eaton (ETN), MURATA MFG CO L/ADR (MRAAY), FANUC LTD JAPAN/ADR (FANUY), 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 shareholders 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 purchased 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]