Assured Guaranty - AGO Stock Forecast, Price & News

3 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Assured Guaranty in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" AGO shares.
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3 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Assured Guaranty's stock. Their AGO share price forecasts range from $65.00 to $84.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $74.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 58.8% 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 stock has decreased by 24.6% and is now trading at $46.92.
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Assured Guaranty saw a decrease in short interest in February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 1,060,000 shares, a decrease of 7.0% from the February 13th total of 1,140,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 285,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.7 days. Currently, 1.9% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 4th 2023.
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Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 4th. The financial services provider reported $0.45 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.84 by $0.39. The financial services provider had revenue of $212 million for the quarter. Assured Guaranty had a net margin of 17.15% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 4.88%.

Assured Guaranty announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 22nd. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, March 8th will be paid a dividend of $0.28 per share on Wednesday, March 22nd. This represents a $1.12 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.39%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, March 7th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.25.
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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), Invesco DWA Financial Momentum ETF (PFI), Cambria Shareholder Yield ETF (SYLD), Putnam Focused Large Cap Value ETF (PVAL), Invesco S&P SmallCap Momentum ETF (XSMO), First Trust Financial AlphaDEX Fund (FXO) and SPDR S&P SmallCap 600 ESG ETF (ESIX).

Assured Guaranty (NYSE:AGO) pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.35%. 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 57.73%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, AGO will have a dividend payout ratio of 19.82% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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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 Raytheon Technologies (RTX).

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

Assured Guaranty's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Putnam Investments LLC (9.91%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (7.28%), Kahn Brothers Group Inc. (2.05%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (2.03%), Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. (1.87%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.32%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew T Feldstein, Dominic Frederico, G Lawrence Buhl, Howard Albert, Laura Bieling, Robert Bailenson, Russell B Brewer II, Stephen Donnarumma and Thomas W Jones.
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Shares of AGO stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of AGO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $46.92.

Assured Guaranty (NYSE:AGO) has a market capitalization of $2.77 billion and generates $723 million in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $124 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.94 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 407 workers across the globe.

Assured Guaranty's mailing address is 30 WOODBOURNE AVENUE, HAMILTON D0, HM 08. The official website for the company is www.assuredguaranty.com. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at (441) 279-5700, via email at rtucker@agltd.com, or via fax at 441-279-5701.