NYSE:AGO - Assured Guaranty Stock Price, Forecast & News

Assured Guaranty trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AGO."

Assured Guaranty announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 6th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, November 20th will be paid a dividend of $0.18 per share on Wednesday, December 4th. This represents a $0.72 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.49%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, November 19th. View Assured Guaranty's Dividend History.

Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 7th. The financial services provider reported $0.79 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.76 by $0.03. The financial services provider had revenue of $206 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $212.55 million. Assured Guaranty had a net margin of 40.07% and a return on equity of 5.96%. The company's revenue was down 25.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.47 EPS. View Assured Guaranty's Earnings History.

Assured Guaranty is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 27th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Assured Guaranty.

3 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for Assured Guaranty's stock. Their forecasts range from $52.00 to $65.00. On average, they anticipate Assured Guaranty's share price to reach $58.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 20.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Assured Guaranty.

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

Media coverage about AGO stock has trended negative on Thursday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing 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. Assured Guaranty earned a news sentiment score of -2.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Assured Guaranty.

Assured Guaranty saw a decline in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 5,080,000 shares, a decline of 9.6% from the December 15th total of 5,620,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 517,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 9.8 days. Approximately 5.5% of the company's stock are short sold. View Assured Guaranty's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Assured Guaranty include Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), Progressive (PGR), Allstate (ALL), Travelers Companies (TRV), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Markel (MKL), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cna Financial (CNA), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Old Republic International (ORI), First American Financial (FAF), Hanover Insurance Group (THG) and Axis Capital (AXS).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Assured Guaranty investors own include Intel (INTC), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Amgen (AMGN), Cisco Systems (CSCO), AbbVie (ABBV), Chevron (CVX), Walt Disney (DIS), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET) and IBM (IBM).

Assured Guaranty's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Balasa Dinverno & Foltz LLC (0.07%), TrimTabs Asset Management LLC (0.03%), Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (0.01%), Sciencast Management LP (0.01%), Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.01%) and Cypress Capital Group (0.00%). Company insiders that own Assured Guaranty stock include Andrew T Feldstein, Bruce E Stern, Cary D Baetz, Dominic Frederico, G Lawrence Buhl, Howard Albert, Jim Evans, Laura Bieling, Patrick W Kenny, Robert Bailenson, Russell B Brewer II and Stephen Donnarumma. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Assured Guaranty.

AGO stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Sciencast Management LP, TrimTabs Asset Management LLC, Balasa Dinverno & Foltz LLC and Janney Montgomery Scott LLC. Company insiders that have sold Assured Guaranty company stock in the last year include Bruce E Stern, Dominic Frederico, G Lawrence Buhl, Howard Albert, Laura Bieling, Robert Bailenson and Stephen Donnarumma. View Insider Buying and Selling for Assured Guaranty.

AGO stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cypress Capital Group, NEXT Financial Group Inc, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Huntington National Bank and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank . Company insiders that have bought Assured Guaranty stock in the last two years include Andrew T Feldstein, Cary D Baetz and Jim Evans. View Insider Buying and Selling for Assured Guaranty.

Shares of AGO 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 AGO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $48.27.

Assured Guaranty has a market capitalization of $4.60 billion and generates $1.00 billion in revenue each year. Assured Guaranty employs 312 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Assured Guaranty.

The official website for Assured Guaranty is http://www.assuredguaranty.com/.

Assured Guaranty's mailing address is 30 WOODBOURNE AVENUE, HAMILTON D0, HM 08. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 441-279-5700 or via email at [email protected]