Central Puerto (CEPU) Stock Price, News & Analysis

1 Wall Street research 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 research 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 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Central Puerto's stock. Their CEPU share price targets range from $8.00 to $8.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $8.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 10.8%.
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Central Puerto's stock was trading at $9.10 at the beginning of the year. Since then, CEPU shares have decreased by 1.4% and is now trading at $8.97.
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Central Puerto saw a decrease in short interest during the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 729,700 shares, a decrease of 9.4% from the February 29th total of 805,600 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 326,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.2 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, May 20th 2024.
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Central Puerto S.A. (NYSE:CEPU) released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, March, 11th. The company reported $2.68 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.02 by $2.66. The company had revenue of $193.03 million for the quarter. Central Puerto had a net margin of 50.95% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 25.37%. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.96 EPS.

Central Puerto declared a -- dividend on Friday, January 5th. Stockholders of record on Friday, January 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.0662 per share on Friday, January 12th. This represents a dividend yield of 2.1%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, January 12th.
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Central Puerto (NYSE:CEPU) pays an annual dividend of $0.19 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.06%. The dividend payout ratio is 8.02%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CEPU will have a dividend payout ratio of 16.52% 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 670,100 shares of CEPU stock, representing 3.56% 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

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

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