Central Puerto Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:CEPU)

1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Central Puerto in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" CEPU shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CEPU, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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1 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Central Puerto's shares. Their CEPU share price targets range from $8.00 to $8.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $8.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.5%.
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Central Puerto's stock was trading at $5.94 at the start of the year. Since then, CEPU stock has increased by 41.1% and is now trading at $8.38.
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Central Puerto saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 856,800 shares, an increase of 9.2% from the October 31st total of 784,900 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 288,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.0 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, March 14th 2024.
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Central Puerto declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, December 23rd. Investors of record on Tuesday, January 3rd will be paid a dividend of $0.1649 per share on Monday, January 9th. This represents a $0.66 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 7.87%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, December 30th.
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Central Puerto (NYSE:CEPU) pays an annual dividend of $0.13 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.57%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 37.14%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CEPU will have a dividend payout ratio of 20.31% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Global X MSCI Argentina ETF holds 327,601 shares of CEPU stock, representing 2.96% of its portfolio.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Central Puerto investors own include GSK (GSK), Pampa Energía (PAM), American Airlines Group (AAL), Pfizer (PFE), STORE Capital (STOR), Apple Hospitality REIT (APLE), Preferred Apartment Communities (APTS), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Brinker International (EAT) and

(CEPU) raised $692 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, February 2nd 2018. The company issued 35,500,000 shares at $17.50-$21.50 per share. BofA Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley served as the underwriters for the IPO.

Central Puerto's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Autonomy Capital Jersey L.P. (0.50%), Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. (0.24%), Hsbc Holdings PLC (0.12%), Trium Capital LLP (0.10%), AQR Capital Management LLC (0.08%) and Quadrature Capital Ltd (0.03%).

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