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, January 24th. Investors of record on Wednesday, February 6th will be given a dividend of $0.08 per share on Wednesday, February 20th. This represents a $0.32 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.10%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, February 5th. View Brown & Brown's Dividend History.

Shares of Brown & Brown split on Thursday, March 29th 2018. The 2-1 split was announced on Monday, February 26th 2018. The newly issued shares were payable to shareholders after the market closes 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) issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, January, 28th. The financial services provider reported $0.26 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.27 by $0.01. The financial services provider earned $508.70 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $503.52 million. Brown & Brown had a net margin of 17.09% and a return on equity of 12.03%. The company's revenue was up 7.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.24 EPS. View Brown & Brown's Earnings History.

Brown & Brown is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, April 22nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Brown & Brown.

10 brokerages have issued twelve-month target prices for Brown & Brown's stock. Their predictions range from $26.00 to $33.00. On average, they expect Brown & Brown's share price to reach $29.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.0%. View Analyst Price Targets for Brown & Brown.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Brown & Brown in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Brown & Brown.

News stories about BRO stock have been trending somewhat negative on Monday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Brown & Brown earned a daily sentiment score of -1.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the financial services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future.

Some companies that are related to Brown & Brown include Willis Towers Watson (WLTW), Arthur J Gallagher & Co (AJG), AXA Equitable (EQH), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Ashmore Group (AJMPF), Fanhua (FANH), eHealth (EHTH), CorVel (CRVL), AA (AATDF), Health Insurance Innovations (HIIQ), Crawford & Company (CRD.A), Crawford & Company (CRD.B), Goosehead Insurance (GSHD) and Marketing Alliance (MAAL).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Brown & Brown investors own include Bank of America (bac), Mcdonald's (MCD), Micron Technology (MU), Netflix (NFLX), General Electric (GE), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Domino's Pizza (dpz), Snap (SNAP), Kellogg (K) and Procter & Gamble (PG).

Brown & Brown's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (7.65%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (3.54%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.16%), Clarkston Capital Partners LLC (1.74%), APG Asset Management N.V. (1.61%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.02%). Company insiders that own Brown & Brown stock include Anthony T Strianese, Hyatt J Brown, Michael Waldkirch, 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 First Quadrant L P CA, American Century Companies Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Bessemer Group Inc., Principal Financial Group Inc., Lord Abbett & CO. LLC, Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc. and D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Brown & Brown company stock in the last year include Anthony T Strianese and Robert W Lloyd. View Insider Buying and Selling for Brown & Brown.

BRO stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, Norges Bank, APG Asset Management N.V., BlackRock Inc., Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P., Retirement Systems of Alabama, Bank of New York Mellon Corp and Bank of Nova Scotia. 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 $29.01.

Brown & Brown has a market capitalization of $8.11 billion and generates $2.01 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $344.26 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.23 on an earnings per share basis. Brown & Brown employs 9,590 workers across the globe.

The official website for Brown & Brown is http://www.bbinsurance.com.

Brown & Brown's mailing address is 220 South Ridgewood Avenue, Daytona Beach FL, 32114. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 386-252-9601.