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 paid a dividend of $0.53 per share on Thursday, October 31st. This represents a $2.12 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.91%. The ex-dividend date 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 earned $59.75 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $58.21 million. Saul Centers had a net margin of 22.34% and a return on equity of 21.07%. 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 trended neutral recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group scores the sentiment of 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 nearest to five being the most favorable. Saul Centers earned a news impact score of 0.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles 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 effect 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 the month of 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 daily trading volume, of 51,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.4 days. Approximately 0.5% of the company's shares are sold short. 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 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 bought 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 $54.25.

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]