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 declared a dividend on Thursday, July 25th. Shareholders of record on Friday, August 16th will be given 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) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July, 25th. The company reported $0.48 EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate 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%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 3.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business 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 analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Ardagh Group's stock. Their forecasts range from $15.30 to $22.00. On average, they expect Ardagh Group's stock price to reach $17.66 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 4.6% from the stock's current price. 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.

Media stories about ARD stock have trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Ardagh Group earned a news sentiment score of -1.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. 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 trading volume of 96,400 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.8 days. Currently, 2.0% of the company's shares are short sold. 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 served 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors 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 $16.89.

Ardagh Group has a market capitalization of $314.75 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.