Booz Allen Hamilton - BAH Stock Forecast, Price & News

8 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Booz Allen Hamilton in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" BAH shares.
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8 equities research analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Booz Allen Hamilton's stock. Their BAH share price forecasts range from $95.00 to $116.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $104.33 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 15.4% from the stock's current price.
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Booz Allen Hamilton's stock was trading at $104.52 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, BAH stock has decreased by 13.5% and is now trading at $90.42.
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Booz Allen Hamilton saw a increase in short interest during the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 2,700,000 shares, an increase of 6.3% from the February 13th total of 2,540,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,060,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.5 days. Currently, 2.1% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, May 19th 2023.
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Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Co. (NYSE:BAH) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 28th. The business services provider reported $1.26 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.08 by $0.18. The business services provider earned $2.11 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.14 billion. Booz Allen Hamilton had a net margin of 4.76% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 51.31%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 4.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $1.03 EPS.

Booz Allen Hamilton declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, January 27th. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 10th will be given a dividend of $0.47 per share on Wednesday, March 1st. This represents a $1.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.08%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 9th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.43.
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Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE:BAH) pays an annual dividend of $1.88 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.12%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 12 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 58.39%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BAH will have a dividend payout ratio of 38.84% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Booz Allen Hamilton issued an update on its FY23 earnings guidance on Friday, January, 27th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $4.35-4.50 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $4.47. The company issued revenue guidance of +9.5-10.5% yr/yr to ~$9.16-9.24 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $9.15 billion.

1,303 employees have rated Booz Allen Hamilton Chief Executive Officer Horacio D. Rozanski on Glassdoor.com. Horacio D. Rozanski has an approval rating of 95% among the company's employees. This puts Horacio D. Rozanski in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Booz Allen Hamilton trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BAH."

Booz Allen Hamilton's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (8.12%), Morgan Stanley (3.84%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2.36%), 1832 Asset Management L.P. (2.19%), WCM Investment Management LLC (2.05%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.49%). Insiders that own company stock include Elizabeth M Thompson, Gretchen W Mcclain, Horacio Rozanski, Karen M Dahut, Karen M Dahut, Kristine Anderson, Lloyd Howell Jr, Lloyd Howell, Jr, Melody C Barnes, Nancy Laben, Richard Crowe, Susan L Penfield and Susan L Penfield.
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One share of BAH stock can currently be purchased for approximately $90.42.

Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE:BAH) has a market capitalization of $11.96 billion and generates $8.36 billion in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $466.74 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.22 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 29,300 workers across the globe.

Booz Allen Hamilton's mailing address is 8283 Greensboro Drive, McLean VA, 22102. The official website for the company is www.boozallen.com. The business services provider can be reached via phone at (703) 902-5000, via email at veasey_nicholas@bah.com, or via fax at 703-902-3333.