NYSE:AQNAlgonquin Power & Utilities Stock Price, Forecast & News

Algonquin Power & Utilities' stock was trading at $13.65 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, AQN stock has decreased by 4.4% and is now trading at $13.05. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Algonquin Power & Utilities in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings, 5 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Algonquin Power & Utilities.

Algonquin Power & Utilities is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 13th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Algonquin Power & Utilities.

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp (NYSE:AQN) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May, 7th. The utilities provider reported $0.19 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.21 by $0.02. The utilities provider earned $464.90 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $513.53 million. Algonquin Power & Utilities had a return on equity of 8.46% and a net margin of 23.59%. The company's revenue was down 2.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.19 EPS. View Algonquin Power & Utilities' earnings history.

Algonquin Power & Utilities announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, May 7th. Investors of record on Tuesday, June 30th will be given a dividend of $0.155 per share on Wednesday, July 15th. This represents a $0.62 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.75%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, June 29th. This is a boost from Algonquin Power & Utilities's previous quarterly dividend of $0.14. View Algonquin Power & Utilities' dividend history.

13 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for Algonquin Power & Utilities' stock. Their forecasts range from $13.00 to $19.00. On average, they anticipate Algonquin Power & Utilities' stock price to reach $15.96 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 22.3% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Algonquin Power & Utilities.

News coverage about AQN stock has trended somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie ranks 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 closest to five being the most favorable. Algonquin Power & Utilities earned a daily sentiment score of 0.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories 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 the latest news about Algonquin Power & Utilities.

Algonquin Power & Utilities saw a increase in short interest in the month of June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,680,000 shares, an increase of 14.5% from the May 31st total of 2,340,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 928,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.9 days. Currently, 0.5% of the company's stock are short sold. View Algonquin Power & Utilities' Current Options Chain.

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Algonquin Power & Utilities trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AQN."

Shares of AQN 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 AQN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $13.05.

Algonquin Power & Utilities has a market capitalization of $6.90 billion and generates $1.62 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $530.88 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.63 on an earnings per share basis. Algonquin Power & Utilities employs 2,469 workers across the globe.

The official website for Algonquin Power & Utilities is algonquinpower.com.

Algonquin Power & Utilities' mailing address is 354 DAVIS ROAD, OAKVILLE A6, L6J2X1. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 905-465-4500 or via email at [email protected]