NYSE:COG - Cabot Oil & Gas Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

Cabot Oil & Gas declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 2nd. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, May 16th will be paid a dividend of $0.06 per share on Wednesday, May 30th. This represents a $0.24 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.04%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, May 15th. View Cabot Oil & Gas' Dividend History.

Cabot Oil & Gas announced that its board has approved a share buyback program on Friday, February 23rd 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback 30,000,000 shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are typically a sign that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Cabot Oil & Gas Co. (NYSE:COG) issued its quarterly earnings results on Friday, April, 27th. The oil and gas exploration company reported $0.28 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.27 by $0.01. The oil and gas exploration company earned $473.20 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $471.25 million. Cabot Oil & Gas had a return on equity of 10.56% and a net margin of 6.51%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 8.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.19 earnings per share. View Cabot Oil & Gas' Earnings History.

Cabot Oil & Gas is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July, 26th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Cabot Oil & Gas.

23 brokers have issued twelve-month price objectives for Cabot Oil & Gas' stock. Their forecasts range from $22.00 to $37.00. On average, they anticipate Cabot Oil & Gas' share price to reach $30.2222 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Cabot Oil & Gas.

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Media stories about COG stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Cabot Oil & Gas earned a coverage optimism score of 0.16 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news stories about the oil and gas exploration company an impact score of 45.40 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future.

Cabot Oil & Gas' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Neuberger Berman Group LLC (4.48%), Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc. (1.47%), Northern Trust Corp (1.20%), Franklin Resources Inc. (1.16%), King Luther Capital Management Corp (1.15%) and Millennium Management LLC (1.10%). Company insiders that own Cabot Oil & Gas stock include Dan O Dinges, George Kevin Cunningham, Jeffrey W Hutton, 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 Boston Partners, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Element Capital Management LLC, Neuberger Berman Group LLC, Schroder Investment Management Group, Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co., Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec and Prudential Financial Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Cabot Oil & Gas company stock in the last year include Dan O Dinges, Jeffrey W Hutton and Todd M Roemer. View Insider Buying and Selling for Cabot Oil & Gas.

COG stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Millennium Management LLC, Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, Rockefeller Capital Management L.P., Copeland Capital Management LLC, OppenheimerFunds Inc., Precocity Capital LP, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH and Russell Investments Group Ltd.. 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 $23.11.

Cabot Oil & Gas has a market capitalization of $10.43 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.

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]