CMS Energy - CMS Stock Forecast, Price & News

9 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for CMS Energy in the last year. There are currently 6 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" CMS shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CMS, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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9 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12-month target prices for CMS Energy's shares. Their CMS share price forecasts range from $67.00 to $78.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $70.80 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 8.5% from the stock's current price.
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CMS Energy's stock was trading at $65.05 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, CMS stock has increased by 0.3% and is now trading at $65.26.
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CMS Energy saw a increase in short interest in the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totaling 5,060,000 shares, an increase of 13.7% from the August 15th total of 4,450,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,800,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.8 days. Approximately 1.8% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 27th 2022.
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CMS Energy Co. (NYSE:CMS) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 27th. The utilities provider reported $0.54 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, meeting analysts' consensus estimates of $0.54. The utilities provider earned $1.73 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.63 billion. CMS Energy had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.43% and a net margin of 16.50%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 14.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.77 EPS.
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CMS Energy declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, August 5th. Investors of record on Tuesday, September 6th will be given a dividend of $4.50 per share on Saturday, October 1st. This represents a $18.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 27.58%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, September 2nd. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.46.
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CMS Energy (NYSE:CMS) pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.80%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 15 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 40.44%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CMS will have a dividend payout ratio of 58.97% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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CMS Energy updated its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 4th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.85-$2.89 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $2.88. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

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.

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CMS Energy trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CMS."

CMS Energy's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (5.78%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (5.60%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (4.18%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (1.98%), Franklin Resources Inc. (1.69%) and Pictet Asset Management SA (1.63%). Insiders that own company stock include 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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One share of CMS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $65.26.

CMS Energy (NYSE:CMS) has a market capitalization of $18.94 billion and generates $7.33 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $1.35 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.55 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 9,778 workers across the globe.

CMS Energy's mailing address is ONE ENERGY PLAZA, JACKSON MI, 49201. The official website for the company is www.cmsenergy.com. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at (517) 788-0550, via email at travis.uphaus@cmsenergy.com, or via fax at 517-788-1859.