NYSE:ATO - Atmos Energy Stock Price, Forecast & News

Atmos Energy trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ATO."

Atmos Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 4th. Investors of record on Monday, February 24th will be paid a dividend of $0.575 per share on Monday, March 9th. This represents a $2.30 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.91%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 21st. View Atmos Energy's Dividend History.

Atmos Energy Co. (NYSE:ATO) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February, 4th. The utilities provider reported $1.47 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.49 by $0.02. The utilities provider earned $875.56 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $978.77 million. Atmos Energy had a return on equity of 9.25% and a net margin of 18.36%. Atmos Energy's revenue was down .3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.38 earnings per share. View Atmos Energy's Earnings History.

Atmos Energy is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Atmos Energy.

Atmos Energy updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Tuesday, February, 4th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $4.58-4.73 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $4.67.

10 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Atmos Energy's shares. Their forecasts range from $103.00 to $125.00. On average, they anticipate Atmos Energy's stock price to reach $119.30 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.0%. View Analyst Price Targets for Atmos Energy.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Atmos Energy in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Atmos Energy.

Media stories about ATO stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Atmos Energy earned a news sentiment score of 1.8 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 news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Atmos Energy.

Some companies that are related to Atmos Energy include New Jersey Resources (NJR), National Fuel Gas (NFG), Northwest Natural (NWN), Chesapeake Utilities (CPK), ONEOK (OKE), South Jersey Industries (SJI), Southwest Gas (SWX) and UGI (UGI).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Atmos Energy investors own include AT&T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ), Altria Group (MO), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Chevron (CVX), Procter & Gamble (PG), Mcdonald's (MCD), Costco Wholesale (COST) and Enterprise Products Partners (EPD).

Atmos Energy's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (7.03%), Magellan Asset Management Ltd (3.19%), FMR LLC (1.69%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (1.51%), Maple Brown Abbott Ltd (1.05%) and Sfmg LLC (0.98%). Company insiders that own Atmos Energy stock include David J Park, Nancy K Quinn and Richard W Douglas. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Atmos Energy.

ATO stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cohen & Steers Inc., Scout Investments Inc., Bank of America Corp DE, Pictet Asset Management Ltd., Jennison Associates LLC, DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, Marshall Wace North America L.P. and Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Atmos Energy.

ATO stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Brookfield Public Securities Group LLC, Credit Agricole S A, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Magellan Asset Management Ltd, State Street Corp, Reaves W H & Co. Inc., AQR Capital Management LLC and Barclays PLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Atmos Energy.

Shares of ATO 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 ATO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $120.45.

Atmos Energy has a market capitalization of $14.73 billion and generates $2.90 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $511.41 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.35 on an earnings per share basis. Atmos Energy employs 4,776 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Atmos Energy.

The official website for Atmos Energy is http://www.atmosenergy.com/.

Atmos Energy's mailing address is THREE LINCOLN CENTRE SUITE 1800 5430 LBJ FREEWAY, DALLAS TX, 75240. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 972-934-9227.