CMS Energy Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:CMS)

9 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for CMS Energy in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" CMS shares.
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9 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for CMS Energy's shares. Their CMS share price targets range from $54.00 to $73.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $61.82 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 5.9% from the stock's current price.
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CMS Energy's stock was trading at $63.33 at the start of the year. Since then, CMS stock has decreased by 7.8% and is now trading at $58.40.
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CMS Energy saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 14,090,000 shares, an increase of 22.5% from the October 31st total of 11,500,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,620,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.4 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 1st 2024.
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CMS Energy Co. (NYSE:CMS) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 26th. The utilities provider reported $0.61 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.63 by $0.02. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.67 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.11 billion. CMS Energy had a net margin of 9.61% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.49%. The business's revenue was down 17.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.56 EPS.
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CMS Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, October 20th. Shareholders of record on Friday, November 3rd will be given a dividend of $0.4875 per share on Thursday, November 30th. This represents a $1.95 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.34%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 2nd.
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CMS Energy (NYSE:CMS) pays an annual dividend of $1.95 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.34%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 76.77%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, CMS will have a dividend payout ratio of 58.38% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of CMS Energy (NYSE:CMS) stock in their portfolio include Virtus Reaves Utilities ETF (UTES), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Utilities ETF (RYU), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Utilities ETF (RSPU), Invesco Dorsey Wright Utilities Momentum ETF (PUI), First Trust EIP Carbon Impact ETF (ECLN), Natixis Vaughan Nelson Mid Cap ETF (VNMC), Goldman Sachs Future Real Estate and Infrastructure Equity ETF (GREI) and Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLU).

CMS Energy issued an update on its FY24 earnings guidance on Thursday, October, 26th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $3.27-3.33 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.35.

5 employees have rated CMS Energy Chief Executive Officer John G. Russell on Glassdoor.com. John G. Russell has an approval rating of 60% among the company's employees. This puts John G. Russell in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other CMS Energy investors own include AT&T (T), Intel (INTC), Pfizer (PFE), AbbVie (ABBV), Comcast (CMCSA), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Dominion Energy (D), Procter & Gamble (PG), Verizon Communications (VZ) and Boeing (BA).

CMS Energy's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include JPMorgan Chase & Co. (7.24%), Ameriprise Financial Inc. (2.36%), Morgan Stanley (1.92%), Invesco Ltd. (1.60%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.55%) and Legal & General Group Plc (1.14%). Insiders that own company stock include Brandon J Hofmeister, Brian F Rich, Catherine A Hendrian, Dhenuvakonda Rao Venkat, Glenn P Barba, Jean-Francois Brossoit, John G Russell, Jon E Barfield, Scott B Mcintosh and Shaun M Johnson.
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