NYSE:BFS - Saul Centers Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Saul Centers trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BFS."

Saul Centers announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, March 15th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, April 16th will be given a dividend of $0.53 per share on Tuesday, April 30th. This represents a $2.12 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.73%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, April 15th. View Saul Centers' Dividend History.

Saul Centers Inc (NYSE:BFS) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May, 2nd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.81 by $0.35. The real estate investment trust earned $59.75 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $58.21 million. Saul Centers had a net margin of 22.23% and a return on equity of 21.45%. View Saul Centers' Earnings History.

Saul Centers is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, August 2nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Saul Centers.

1 brokerages have issued 1-year price objectives for Saul Centers' stock. Their predictions range from $58.00 to $58.00. On average, they anticipate Saul Centers' stock price to reach $58.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Saul Centers.

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

News articles about BFS stock have trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Saul Centers earned a media sentiment score of 1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Saul Centers.

Saul Centers saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 43,400 shares, an increase of 18.3% from the April 30th total of 36,700 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 62,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.7 days. Approximately 0.3% of the company's stock are short sold. View Saul Centers' Current Options Chain.

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Saul Centers' stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Principal Financial Group Inc. (3.99%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1.16%), Rhumbline Advisers (0.16%), Martingale Asset Management L P (0.15%), Bank of Montreal Can (0.13%) and California Public Employees Retirement System (0.12%). Company insiders that own Saul Centers stock include B Francis Saul II, Charles W Sherren Jr, Charles W Sherren, Jr, Christopher Netter, Debra Noreen Stencel, Donald A Hachey, James Page Lansdale, John E Chapoton, Mark Sullivan III, Patrick F Noonan, Philip D Caraci, Scott V Schneider and Steven N Corey. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Saul Centers.

BFS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Rhumbline Advisers, Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association of America, Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Strs Ohio, Bank of Montreal Can and First Manhattan Co.. Company insiders that have sold Saul Centers company stock in the last year include Charles W Sherren Jr, Christopher Netter, Debra Noreen Stencel, John E Chapoton, Mark Sullivan III, Philip D Caraci, Scott V Schneider and Steven N Corey. View Insider Buying and Selling for Saul Centers.

BFS stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Martingale Asset Management L P, Marshall Wace LLP, Principal Financial Group Inc., Dupont Capital Management Corp, Stevens Capital Management LP, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Public School Empls Retrmt SYS, BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Saul Centers.

Shares of BFS 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BFS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $56.90.

Saul Centers has a market capitalization of $1.30 billion and generates $227.90 million in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $50.55 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.11 on an earnings per share basis. Saul Centers employs 110 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Saul Centers.

The official website for Saul Centers is http://www.saulcenters.com/.

Saul Centers' mailing address is 7501 WISCONSIN AVENUE, BETHESDA MD, 20814. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at 301-986-6200 or via email at [email protected]