NYSE:BT - BT Group Stock Price, News & Analysis

BT Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BT."

BT Group announced a semiannual dividend on Friday, May 31st. Stockholders of record on Friday, August 9th will be paid a dividend of $0.6807 per share on Monday, September 16th. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 8th. This is a positive change from BT Group's previous semiannual dividend of $0.30. View BT Group's Dividend History.

BT Group's stock split on Tuesday, December 8th 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Friday, November 20th 2015. The newly created shares were distributed to shareholders after the closing bell on Monday, December 7th 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of BT Group stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

BT Group plc (NYSE:BT) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May, 10th. The utilities provider reported $0.52 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.48 by $0.04. The utilities provider earned $7.58 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $7.88 billion. View BT Group's Earnings History.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BT Group in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for BT Group.

Press coverage about BT stock has trended negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring 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 closest to five being the most favorable. BT Group earned a media sentiment score of -2.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for BT Group.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other BT Group investors own include BT Group - CLASS A (BT.A), General Electric (GE), Bank of America (BAC), Intel (INTC), Micron Technology (MU), Ford Motor (F), AT&T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ), Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Comcast (CMCSA).

BT Group's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Renaissance Technologies LLC (0.11%), Morningstar Investment Services LLC (0.10%), Northern Trust Corp (0.08%), Morgan Stanley (0.06%), Royal Bank of Canada (0.04%) and Citadel Advisors LLC (0.04%).

BT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC, Aperio Group LLC, Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co., Bank of America Corp DE, Pacer Advisors Inc., Point72 Asset Management L.P., Citadel Advisors LLC and JPMorgan Chase & Co..

BT stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Renaissance Technologies LLC, Morgan Stanley, Jefferies Group LLC, Morningstar Investment Services LLC, LPL Financial LLC, US Bancorp DE, Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. and Semmax Financial Advisors Inc..

Shares of BT 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 BT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $10.57.

BT Group has a market capitalization of $20.97 billion and generates $27.71 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $2.83 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.27 on an earnings per share basis. BT Group employs 106,700 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About BT Group.

The official website for BT Group is http://www.btplc.com/.

BT Group's mailing address is BT CENTRE 81 NEWGATE STREET, LONDON X0, EC1A7AJ. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 44-0-20-7356-6372 or via email at [email protected]