NYSE:BRO - Brown & Brown Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Brown & Brown trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BRO."

Brown & Brown announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, July 12th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, August 8th will be given a dividend of $0.075 per share on Wednesday, August 15th. This represents a $0.30 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.01%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, August 7th. View Brown & Brown's Dividend History.

Shares of Brown & Brown split on the morning of Thursday, March 29th 2018. The 2-1 split was announced on Monday, February 26th 2018. The newly created shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell on Wednesday, March 28th 2018. An investor that had 100 shares of Brown & Brown stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Brown & Brown, Inc. (NYSE:BRO) announced its quarterly earnings data on Monday, July, 23rd. The financial services provider reported $0.26 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.28 by $0.02. The financial services provider had revenue of $473.10 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $472.74 million. Brown & Brown had a return on equity of 11.75% and a net margin of 22.25%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 1.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.25 earnings per share. View Brown & Brown's Earnings History.

Brown & Brown is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, October, 15th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Brown & Brown.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Brown & Brown's shares. Their predictions range from $22.50 to $33.00. On average, they anticipate Brown & Brown's stock price to reach $27.8636 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.6%. View Analyst Price Targets for Brown & Brown.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Brown & Brown in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Brown & Brown.

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News articles about BRO stock have trended somewhat negative this week, according to Accern. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than 20 million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Brown & Brown earned a daily sentiment score of -0.01 on Accern's scale. They also gave news headlines about the financial services provider an impact score of 45.15 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View Recent Headlines for Brown & Brown.

Brown & Brown's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (7.33%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (4.34%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.10%), Select Equity Group L.P. (2.00%), Clarkston Capital Partners LLC (1.86%) and Renaissance Technologies LLC (1.81%). Company insiders that own Brown & Brown stock include Anthony T Strianese, Hyatt J Brown, Jerome Scott Penny, Michael Waldkirch, Richard Freebourn, Richard Silas and Robert W Lloyd. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Brown & Brown.

BRO stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Renaissance Technologies LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., Bank of Montreal Can, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Burgundy Asset Management Ltd., Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc., California Public Employees Retirement System and American Century Companies Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Brown & Brown company stock in the last year include Hyatt J Brown, Michael Waldkirch and Richard Silas. View Insider Buying and Selling for Brown & Brown.

BRO stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Select Equity Group L.P., FMR LLC, Citadel Advisors LLC, PGGM Investments, Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P., First Quadrant L P CA, Twin Capital Management Inc. and BlackRock Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Brown & Brown.

Shares of BRO 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 BRO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $29.82.

Brown & Brown has a market capitalization of $8.28 billion and generates $1.88 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $399.63 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.96 on an earnings per share basis. Brown & Brown employs 1,990 workers across the globe.

Brown & Brown's mailing address is 220 S. RIDGEWOOD AVE., DAYTONA BEACH FL, 32114. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 386-252-9601.