NYSE:COG - Cabot Oil & Gas Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Cabot Oil & Gas trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "COG."

Cabot Oil & Gas announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, January 14th. Investors of record on Thursday, January 24th will be paid a dividend of $0.07 per share on Thursday, February 7th. This represents a $0.28 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.11%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, January 23rd. View Cabot Oil & Gas' Dividend History.

Cabot Oil & Gas announced that its board has authorized a share buyback program on Friday, February 23rd 2018, which allows the company to buyback 30,000,000 shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are typically an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Cabot Oil & Gas Co. (NYSE:COG) posted its earnings results on Friday, October, 26th. The oil and gas exploration company reported $0.25 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.28 by $0.03. The oil and gas exploration company earned $545.10 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $482.74 million. Cabot Oil & Gas had a net margin of 12.69% and a return on equity of 14.87%. Cabot Oil & Gas's quarterly revenue was up 41.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.07 earnings per share. View Cabot Oil & Gas' Earnings History.

Cabot Oil & Gas is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, February 22nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Cabot Oil & Gas.

Cabot Oil & Gas will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, February 22nd at 9:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

20 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Cabot Oil & Gas' shares. Their forecasts range from $22.00 to $34.00. On average, they anticipate Cabot Oil & Gas' share price to reach $28.3047 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 12.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Cabot Oil & Gas.

20 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Cabot Oil & Gas in the last year. There are currently 8 hold ratings and 12 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Cabot Oil & Gas.

Press coverage about COG stock has trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie reports. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Cabot Oil & Gas earned a daily sentiment score of 1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the oil and gas exploration company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future.

Cabot Oil & Gas saw a decrease in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 27,792,987 shares, a decrease of 24.5% from the January 15th total of 36,830,393 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 6,240,216 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.5 days. Approximately 6.6% of the company's shares are sold short. View Cabot Oil & Gas' Current Options Chain.

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Cabot Oil & Gas' stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Sanders Capital LLC (7.17%), BlackRock Inc. (6.80%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.88%), Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc. (1.43%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.31%) and Mackenzie Financial Corp (1.22%). Company insiders that own Cabot Oil & Gas stock include Dan O Dinges, Jeffrey W Hutton, Peter B Delaney, Robert Kelley and Todd M Roemer. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Cabot Oil & Gas.

COG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, BlackRock Inc., Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co., D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., Copeland Capital Management LLC and DFT Energy LP. View Insider Buying and Selling for Cabot Oil & Gas.

COG stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Anchor Bolt Capital LP, Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, Two Sigma Investments LP, Bradley Foster & Sargent Inc. CT, Sanders Capital LLC, Two Sigma Advisers LP, Scout Investments Inc. and Foresters Investment Management Company Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Cabot Oil & Gas stock in the last two years include Peter B Delaney and Robert Kelley. View Insider Buying and Selling for Cabot Oil & Gas.

Shares of COG 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of COG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $25.23.

Cabot Oil & Gas has a market capitalization of $10.88 billion and generates $1.76 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas exploration company earns $100.39 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.48 on an earnings per share basis. Cabot Oil & Gas employs 308 workers across the globe.

The official website for Cabot Oil & Gas is http://www.cabotog.com.

Cabot Oil & Gas' mailing address is 840 Gessner Road Suite 1400, Houston TX, 77024. The oil and gas exploration company can be reached via phone at 281-589-4600 or via email at [email protected]