Cabot Oil & Gas (COG) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Cabot Oil & Gas Co. (NYSE:COG) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July, 29th. The oil and gas exploration company reported $0.26 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.27 by $0.01. The oil and gas exploration company had revenue of $324.67 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $429.52 million. Cabot Oil & Gas had a net margin of 19.77% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 16.52%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 2.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.05 EPS.
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Cabot Oil & Gas (NYSE:COG) pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.98%. The dividend payout ratio is 102.33%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, COG will have a dividend payout ratio of 19.64% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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16 employees have rated Cabot Oil & Gas Chief Executive Officer Dan O. Dinges on Glassdoor.com. Dan O. Dinges has an approval rating of 57% among the company's employees. This puts Dan O. Dinges in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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