NYSE:ABC - AmerisourceBergen Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

AmerisourceBergen announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, January 30th. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 14th will be given a dividend of $0.42 per share on Monday, March 2nd. This represents a $1.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.77%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 13th. This is a boost from AmerisourceBergen's previous quarterly dividend of $0.40. View AmerisourceBergen's Dividend History.

AmerisourceBergen Corp. (NYSE:ABC) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January, 30th. The company reported $1.76 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.67 by $0.09. The business had revenue of $47.86 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $47.84 billion. AmerisourceBergen had a return on equity of 49.95% and a net margin of 0.36%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 5.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company earned $1.60 earnings per share. View AmerisourceBergen's Earnings History.

AmerisourceBergen is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 7th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for AmerisourceBergen.

AmerisourceBergen issued an update on its FY 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Thursday, January, 30th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 7.55-7.80 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $7.53.

9 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for AmerisourceBergen's shares. Their forecasts range from $76.00 to $112.00. On average, they anticipate AmerisourceBergen's share price to reach $96.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for AmerisourceBergen.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for AmerisourceBergen in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for AmerisourceBergen.

Media coverage about ABC stock has been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing 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. AmerisourceBergen earned a daily sentiment score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for AmerisourceBergen.

AmerisourceBergen saw a drop in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 6,840,000 shares, a drop of 7.4% from the January 15th total of 7,390,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,100,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 6.2 days. Approximately 4.6% of the shares of the company are sold short. View AmerisourceBergen's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to AmerisourceBergen include McKesson (MCK), Cardinal Health (CAH), Henry Schein (HSIC), Patterson Companies (PDCO) and Owens & Minor (OMI).

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AmerisourceBergen's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (3.48%), FMR LLC (2.60%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (1.43%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (1.42%), Boston Partners (1.19%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.17%). Company insiders that own AmerisourceBergen stock include Dale Danilewitz, Gina Clark, Henry Wadsworth Mcgee III, James F Cleary Jr, John G Chou, Kathleen W Hyle, Kathy H Gaddes, Lazarus Krikorian, Peyton R Howell, Richard W Gochnauer, Robert P Mauch, Steven H Collis and Tim G Guttman. View Institutional Ownership Trends for AmerisourceBergen.

ABC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Franklin Resources Inc., Janus Henderson Group PLC, FIL Ltd, Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc. OH, Beutel Goodman & Co Ltd., Sei Investments Co., Poplar Forest Capital LLC and AJO LP. Company insiders that have sold AmerisourceBergen company stock in the last year include Dale Danilewitz, Gina Clark, Henry Wadsworth Mcgee III, James F Cleary Jr, John G Chou, Kathleen W Hyle, Kathy H Gaddes, Richard W Gochnauer, Robert P Mauch and Steven H Collis. View Insider Buying and Selling for AmerisourceBergen.

ABC stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including AQR Capital Management LLC, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., USS Investment Management Ltd, FMR LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp and PGGM Investments. View Insider Buying and Selling for AmerisourceBergen.

Shares of ABC 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ABC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $94.93.

AmerisourceBergen has a market capitalization of $19.55 billion and generates $179.59 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $855.36 million in net income (profit) each year or $7.09 on an earnings per share basis. AmerisourceBergen employs 22,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About AmerisourceBergen.

The official website for AmerisourceBergen is http://www.amerisourcebergen.com/.

AmerisourceBergen's mailing address is 1300 MORRIS DRIVE, CHESTERBROOK PA, 19087. The company can be reached via phone at 610-727-7000 or via email at [email protected]