Ardagh Group Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:ARD)

Ardagh Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ARD."

Ardagh Group announced a dividend on Thursday, July 25th. Shareholders of record on Friday, August 16th will be paid a dividend of $0.14 per share on Friday, August 30th. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 15th. View Ardagh Group's Dividend History.

Ardagh Group SA (NYSE:ARD) released its earnings results on Thursday, July, 25th. The company reported $0.48 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.49 by $0.01. The business earned $2.27 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.32 billion. Ardagh Group had a negative return on equity of 26.87% and a negative net margin of 0.61%. Ardagh Group's revenue was down 3.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.51 EPS. View Ardagh Group's Earnings History.

Ardagh Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 31st 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Ardagh Group.

Ardagh Group will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, October 31st at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

5 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Ardagh Group's shares. Their predictions range from $15.30 to $22.00. On average, they anticipate Ardagh Group's stock price to reach $17.66 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.9%. View Analyst Price Targets for Ardagh Group.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ardagh Group in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Ardagh Group.

News headlines about ARD stock have trended somewhat positive on Wednesday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Ardagh Group earned a media sentiment score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Ardagh Group.

Ardagh Group saw a increase in short interest during the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totalling 363,300 shares, an increase of 6.7% from the August 15th total of 340,500 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 96,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.8 days. Currently, 2.0% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Ardagh Group's Current Options Chain.

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(ARD) raised $300 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Wednesday, March 15th 2017. The company issued 16,200,000 shares at a price of $17.00-$20.00 per share. Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman, Sachs, Barclays, Credit Suisse and J.P. Morgan acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Davy and Wells Fargo Securities were co-managers.

Ardagh Group's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.14%).

ARD stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue.

Shares of ARD 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 ARD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $17.82.

Ardagh Group has a market capitalization of $332.16 million and generates $9.10 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $-94,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $1.69 on an earnings per share basis. Ardagh Group employs 23,400 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Ardagh Group.

The official website for Ardagh Group is http://www.ardaghgroup.com/.

Ardagh Group's mailing address is 56 RUE CHARLES MARTEL, LUXEMBOURG N4, L-2134. The company can be reached via phone at 352-2625-8555.