NYSE:AIZ - Assurant Stock Price, Price Target & More

Assurant trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AIZ."

Assurant declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, May 11th. Investors of record on Tuesday, May 29th will be given a dividend of $0.56 per share on Tuesday, June 19th. This represents a $2.24 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.19%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 25th. View Assurant's Dividend History.

Assurant, Inc. (NYSE:AIZ) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May, 3rd. The financial services provider reported $2.14 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.89 by $0.25. The financial services provider had revenue of $1.64 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.59 billion. Assurant had a return on equity of 5.17% and a net margin of 7.41%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 5.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $1.88 EPS. View Assurant's Earnings History.

Assurant is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, July, 30th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Assurant.

2 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Assurant's shares. Their predictions range from $115.00 to $118.00. On average, they anticipate Assurant's share price to reach $116.50 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Assurant.

Assurant saw a increase in short interest in May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,062,833 shares, an increase of 48.4% from the May 15th total of 1,390,054 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 931,532 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.2 days. Currently, 4.0% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Assurant's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Assurant include Unum Group (UNM), Genworth MI Canada (MIC), CNO Financial Group (CNO), NIB (NHF), Triple-S Management (GTS) and Citizens Financial (CFIN).

News stories about AIZ stock have been trending somewhat negative recently, Accern reports. Accern scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Assurant earned a coverage optimism score of -0.04 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the financial services provider an impact score of 48.87 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

Assurant's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (7.16%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (3.76%), LSV Asset Management (3.31%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (2.21%), Neuberger Berman Group LLC (1.86%) and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.38%). Company insiders that own Assurant stock include Christopher J Pagano, John Andrew Sondej and Robert W Stein. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Assurant.

AIZ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Burney Co., Russell Investments Group Ltd., O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC, Neuberger Berman Group LLC, Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Hsbc Holdings PLC, Sei Investments Co. and Natixis. View Insider Buying and Selling for Assurant.

AIZ stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including American Century Companies Inc., Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Interval Partners LP, Barclays PLC, Stevens Capital Management LP and Engineers Gate Manager LP. View Insider Buying and Selling for Assurant.

Shares of AIZ 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of AIZ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $102.37.

Assurant has a market capitalization of $5.38 billion and generates $6.42 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $519.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.98 on an earnings per share basis. Assurant employs 14,750 workers across the globe.

Assurant's mailing address is 28 LIBERTY STREET 41ST FLOOR, NEW YORK NY, 10005. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 212-859-7000 or via email at [email protected]