AEGON Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:AEG)

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

AEGON declared a monthly dividend on Friday, February 15th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, May 22nd will be given a dividend of $0.1691 per share on Friday, June 21st. This represents a $2.03 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 48.31%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, May 21st. View AEGON's Dividend History.

AEGON declared that its board has authorized a share repurchase program on Friday, September 29th 2017, which allows the company to repurchase 51,860,000 shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are generally a sign that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

6 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for AEGON's stock. Their predictions range from $5.00 to $5.00. On average, they expect AEGON's stock price to reach $5.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 19.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for AEGON.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for AEGON in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for AEGON.

News coverage about AEG stock has trended somewhat negative on Saturday, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. AEGON earned a media sentiment score of -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for AEGON.

AEGON saw a decrease in short interest in August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,204,600 shares, a decrease of 25.5% from the July 31st total of 2,960,700 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,360,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.6 days. Currently, 0.1% of the company's shares are sold short. View AEGON's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to AEGON include Metlife (MET), Prudential Financial (PRU), Manulife Financial (MFC), SWISS RE LTD/S (SSREY), Sun Life Financial (SLF), HANNOVER RUECK/S (HVRRY), AVIVA PLC/ADR (AVVIY), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Lincoln National (LNC), Globe Life (GL), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), SONY FINL HOLDI/ADR (SNYFY), Athene (ATH), Scor (SCRYY) and Voya Financial (VOYA).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other AEGON investors own include CA (CA), Endologix (ELGX), BlackRock (BLK), Hawkins (HWKN), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (ANW), Athabasca Oil (ATH), Och-Ziff Capital Management Group (OZM), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE) and Precision Drilling (PD).

AEGON's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Bank of America Corp DE (0.18%), Brandes Investment Partners LP (0.16%), Morgan Stanley (0.16%), Northern Trust Corp (0.08%), Aperio Group LLC (0.05%) and Citadel Advisors LLC (0.04%).

AEG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Brandes Investment Partners LP, Vanguard Group Inc., HighTower Advisors LLC, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., US Bancorp DE and Marshall Wace LLP.

AEG stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Corp DE, Marshall Wace North America L.P., Citadel Advisors LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Royal Bank of Canada, AMP Capital Investors Ltd and Bank of Montreal Can.

Shares of AEG 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 AEG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $4.20.

AEGON has a market capitalization of $11.26 billion and generates $38.94 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $838.51 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.90 on an earnings per share basis. AEGON employs 26,543 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About AEGON.

The official website for AEGON is http://www.aegon.com/.

AEGON's mailing address is Aegonplein 50, The Hague P7, 2591 TV. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 31-0-70-344-3210 or via email at [email protected]