Saul Centers Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:BFS)

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

Saul Centers declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, September 19th. Investors of record on Thursday, October 17th will be given a dividend of $0.53 per share on Thursday, October 31st. This represents a $2.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.90%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, October 16th. View Saul Centers' Dividend History.

Saul Centers Inc (NYSE:BFS) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May, 2nd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.81 by $0.35. The real estate investment trust had revenue of $59.75 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $58.21 million. Saul Centers had a return on equity of 21.07% and a net margin of 22.34%. View Saul Centers' Earnings History.

Saul Centers is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 7th 2019. View Earnings Estimates 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 stories about BFS stock have been trending somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm scores 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 -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Saul Centers earned a media sentiment score of -1.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the real estate investment trust 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 several days. View News Stories for Saul Centers.

Saul Centers saw a decrease in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 71,800 shares, a decrease of 23.5% from the August 30th total of 93,800 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 51,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.4 days. Approximately 0.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Saul Centers' Current Options Chain.

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Saul Centers' stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Bowling Portfolio Management LLC (0.06%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.04%) and Denali Advisors LLC (0.03%). 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, James Page Lansdale, John E Chapoton, Mark Sullivan III, Philip D Caraci, Scott V Schneider and Steven N Corey. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Saul Centers.

BFS stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, Denali Advisors LLC and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BFS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $54.37.

Saul Centers has a market capitalization of $1.25 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]