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 declared 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 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.55%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, November 19th. View Assured Guaranty's Dividend History.

Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 7th. The financial services provider reported $0.79 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.76 by $0.03. The financial services provider earned $206 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $212.55 million. Assured Guaranty had a return on equity of 5.96% and a net margin of 40.07%. The business's revenue was down 25.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company 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.

Assured Guaranty will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 27th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Assured Guaranty's shares. Their forecasts range from $52.00 to $65.00. On average, they anticipate Assured Guaranty's stock price to reach $58.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 24.5% 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 been trending somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Assured Guaranty earned a coverage optimism score of -1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Assured Guaranty.

Assured Guaranty saw a decline in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 4,690,000 shares, a decline of 7.7% from the January 15th total of 5,080,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 510,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 9.2 days. Approximately 5.1% of the shares of the 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), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cna Financial (CNA), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), First American Financial (FAF), Old Republic International (ORI), 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 a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (4.17%), AQR Capital Management LLC (4.04%), Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (2.72%), LSV Asset Management (2.64%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (2.28%) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (1.89%). 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 Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Boston Partners, Seizert Capital Partners LLC, Man Group plc, Russell Investments Group Ltd., AQR Capital Management LLC, State Street Corp and Renaissance Technologies 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including LSV Asset Management, AJO LP, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Royce & Associates LP, Bank of Montreal Can, Schroder Investment Management Group and Verdence Capital Advisors LLC. 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 $46.57.

Assured Guaranty has a market capitalization of $4.44 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]