Assured Guaranty Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:AGO)

2 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Assured Guaranty in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" AGO shares.
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2 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Assured Guaranty's stock. Their AGO share price targets range from $75.00 to $75.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $75.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 10.4% from the stock's current price.
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Assured Guaranty's stock was trading at $62.26 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, AGO shares have increased by 9.1% and is now trading at $67.91.
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Assured Guaranty saw a increase in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,140,000 shares, an increase of 7.5% from the October 31st total of 1,060,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 256,900 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.4 days. Approximately 2.1% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 27th 2024.
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Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November, 7th. The financial services provider reported $3.42 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.07 by $2.35. The financial services provider had revenue of $201 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $181.10 million. Assured Guaranty had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 6.04% and a net margin of 34.15%.

Assured Guaranty declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 1st. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, November 15th will be given a dividend of $0.28 per share on Wednesday, November 29th. This represents a $1.12 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.65%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, November 14th.
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Assured Guaranty (NYSE:AGO) pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.64%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 12 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 14.89%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, AGO will have a dividend payout ratio of 23.09% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Assured Guaranty (NYSE:AGO) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P SmallCap Financials ETF (PSCF), SPDR S&P Insurance ETF (KIE), Cambria Shareholder Yield ETF (SYLD), Invesco S&P SmallCap Momentum ETF (XSMO), Harbor Small Cap Explorer ETF (QWST), Putnam Focused Large Cap Value ETF (PVAL), iShares Factors US Value Style ETF (STLV) and SPDR S&P SmallCap 600 ESG ETF (ESIX).

4 employees have rated Assured Guaranty Chief Executive Officer Piotr Niemczycki on Glassdoor.com. Piotr Niemczycki has an approval rating of 64% among the company's employees. 64.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Assured Guaranty to a friend.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Assured Guaranty investors own include Delta Air Lines (DAL), Citigroup (C), Energy Transfer (ET), Bank of America (BAC), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Boeing (BA), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Pfizer (PFE), Intel (INTC) and RTX (RTX).

Assured Guaranty's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Principal Financial Group Inc. (2.07%), Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. (1.92%), Kahn Brothers Group Inc. (1.79%), Reinhart Partners LLC. (1.41%), Boston Partners (1.18%) and Morgan Stanley (1.15%). Insiders that own company stock include Dominic Frederico, G Lawrence Buhl, Howard Albert, Laura Bieling, Robert Bailenson, Russell B Brewer II and Stephen Donnarumma.
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