Avangrid Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:AGR)

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

Avangrid announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, July 16th. Stockholders of record on Friday, September 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.44 per share on Tuesday, October 1st. This represents a $1.76 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.45%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 5th. View Avangrid's Dividend History.

Avangrid Inc (NYSE:AGR) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 23rd. The utilities provider reported $0.45 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.46 by $0.01. The utilities provider earned $1.55 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.32 billion. Avangrid had a return on equity of 4.09% and a net margin of 8.85%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 15.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.40 earnings per share. View Avangrid's Earnings History.

Avangrid is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 29th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Avangrid.

Avangrid will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, October 29th 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 twelve-month target prices for Avangrid's shares. Their forecasts range from $46.00 to $52.50. On average, they anticipate Avangrid's share price to reach $50.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.0%. 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 3 sell ratings and 4 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Avangrid.

News coverage about AGR stock has been trending neutral recently, according to InfoTrie. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Avangrid earned a news sentiment score of 0.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the utilities provider a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Avangrid.

Avangrid saw a increase in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 2,350,000 shares, an increase of 24.3% from the August 30th total of 1,890,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 463,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.1 days. Approximately 4.2% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Avangrid's Current Options Chain.

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

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Avangrid investors own include Input Capital (INP), Circle Oil (COP), Falcon Oil & Gas (FO), Ivanhoe Mines (IVN), Falcon Oil & Gas (FOG), Costco Wholesale (COST), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), AT&T (T), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) and UIL (UIL).

Avangrid's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Robecosam AG (0.15%), Denali Advisors LLC (0.08%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.06%), Miller Howard Investments Inc. NY (0.04%), Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (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 Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank , Hennessy Advisors Inc., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Avangrid.

AGR stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Miller Howard Investments Inc. NY, Robecosam AG, Denali Advisors LLC, Park Avenue Securities LLC, Signaturefd LLC, North Star Investment Management Corp., Strategic Blueprint LLC and Wealthcare Advisory Partners 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 $51.00.

Avangrid has a market capitalization of $15.76 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]