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 dividend yield of 3.44%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend 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) released its quarterly earnings data 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 14th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for ABB.

15 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for ABB's shares. Their forecasts range from $20.36 to $27.00. On average, they anticipate ABB's share price to reach $23.4533 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 20.9% 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 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for ABB.

Media headlines about ABB stock have trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. ABB earned a coverage optimism score of 1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the industrial products company a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future.

ABB saw a decline in short interest in November. As of November 30th, there was short interest totalling 1,084,067 shares, a decline of 54.6% from the November 15th total of 2,386,262 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,268,844 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.5 days. 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), Johnson Controls International (JCI), FANUC LTD JAPAN/ADR (FANUY), Roper Technologies (ROP), Mitsui & Co Ltd (MITSY), Ingersoll-Rand (IR), Komatsu (KMTUY) and Parker-Hannifin (PH).

ABB's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.50%), BlackRock Inc. (0.19%), Hamlin Capital Management LLC (0.17%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (0.17%), Morgan Stanley (0.16%) and Baird Financial Group Inc. (0.12%).

ABB stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Morgan Stanley, Bowen Hanes & Co. Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Federated Investors Inc. PA, Hamlin Capital Management LLC, Macquarie Group Ltd., Private Advisor Group LLC and Wells Fargo & Company MN.

ABB stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Baird Financial Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Jane Street Group LLC, Clearbridge Investments LLC, Fisher Asset Management LLC and BlackRock 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 $19.40.

ABB has a market capitalization of $41.49 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]