NYSE:AGR - Avangrid Stock Price, Forecast & News

Avangrid trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AGR."

Avangrid announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, December 3rd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 12th will be given a dividend of $0.44 per share on Thursday, January 2nd. This represents a $1.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.30%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 11th. View Avangrid's Dividend History.

Avangrid Inc (NYSE:AGR) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October, 29th. The utilities provider reported $0.40 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.51 by $0.11. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.49 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.54 billion. Avangrid had a return on equity of 3.98% and a net margin of 9.32%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 3.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.45 EPS. View Avangrid's Earnings History.

Avangrid is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 25th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Avangrid.

Avangrid will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, February 25th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

7 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Avangrid's shares. Their forecasts range from $46.00 to $52.50. On average, they expect Avangrid's share price to reach $49.83 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.6%. View Analyst Price Targets for Avangrid.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Avangrid in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings and 3 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Sell." View Analyst Ratings for Avangrid.

News headlines about AGR stock have trended extremely negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Avangrid earned a daily sentiment score of -5.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Avangrid.

Avangrid saw a drop in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 1,990,000 shares, a drop of 10.8% from the December 31st total of 2,230,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 379,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.2 days. Approximately 3.6% of the company's stock are sold short. View Avangrid's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Avangrid include American Electric Power (AEP), Eversource Energy (ES), Edison International (EIX), FirstEnergy (FE), CLP (CLPHY), PPL (PPL), Entergy (ETR), DTE Energy (DTE), Fortis (FTS), SSE PLC/S (SSEZY), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), EDP-Energias de Portugal, S.A (EDPFY), Korea Electric Power (KEP), CENTRAIS ELETRI/S (EBR.B) and CenterPoint Energy (CNP).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Avangrid investors own include Input Capital (INP), Circle Oil (COP), AT&T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ), Falcon Oil & Gas (FO), Home Depot (HD), Pfizer (PFE), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Ivanhoe Mines (IVN) and Costco Wholesale (COST).

Avangrid's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.06%), Whitehelm Capital Pty Ltd (0.04%), Boston Common Asset Management LLC (0.04%), Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. (0.04%), First Quadrant L P CA (0.01%) and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.01%). Company insiders that own Avangrid stock include Alan D Solomont, Douglas K Stuver, Elizabeth Timm, John E Baldacci and Teresa A Herbert. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Avangrid.

AGR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Boston Common Asset Management LLC, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank , Hennessy Advisors Inc., Whitehelm Capital Pty Ltd, SG Americas Securities LLC and Webster Bank N. A.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Avangrid.

AGR stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Assenagon Asset Management S.A., SeaCrest Wealth Management LLC, New York State Teachers Retirement System, Sciencast Management LP, First Quadrant L P CA, Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., IFP Advisors Inc and Summit X LLC. Company insiders that have bought Avangrid stock in the last two years include Alan D Solomont, Douglas K Stuver, Elizabeth Timm, John E Baldacci and Teresa A Herbert. View Insider Buying and Selling for Avangrid.

Shares of AGR 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 AGR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $53.34.

Avangrid has a market capitalization of $16.48 billion and generates $6.48 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $595 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.21 on an earnings per share basis. Avangrid employs 6,449 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Avangrid.

The official website for Avangrid is http://www.avangrid.com/.

Avangrid's mailing address is 180 Marsh Hill Road, ORANGE CT, 06477. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 207-629-1200 or via email at [email protected]