NYSE:CUZ - Cousins Properties Stock Price, Forecast & News

Cousins Properties trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CUZ."

Cousins Properties declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, September 18th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, October 3rd will be paid a dividend of $0.29 per share on Tuesday, October 15th. This represents a $1.16 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.87%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, October 2nd. View Cousins Properties' Dividend History.

Cousins Properties Inc (NYSE:CUZ) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.14 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.69 by $0.55. The real estate investment trust had revenue of $180.83 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $174.03 million. Cousins Properties had a return on equity of 1.55% and a net margin of 9.50%. The business's revenue was up 56.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.15 EPS. View Cousins Properties' Earnings History.

Cousins Properties is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Cousins Properties.

Cousins Properties issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.71-2.85 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.78.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Cousins Properties' stock. Their forecasts range from $11.00 to $42.00. On average, they anticipate Cousins Properties' stock price to reach $31.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 21.8%. View Analyst Price Targets for Cousins Properties.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Cousins Properties in the last year. There are currently 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Cousins Properties.

Media stories about CUZ stock have been trending positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Cousins Properties earned a daily sentiment score of 2.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Cousins Properties.

Cousins Properties saw a drop in short interest in October. As of October 15th, there was short interest totalling 3,500,000 shares, a drop of 15.5% from the September 15th total of 4,140,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,280,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.7 days. Approximately 2.4% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Cousins Properties' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Cousins Properties include Duke Realty (DRE), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), Liberty Property Trust (LPT), Spirit Realty Capital (SRC), PS Business Parks (PSB), American Assets Trust (AAT), Lexington Realty Trust (LXP), Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (WRE), Investors Real Estate Trust Reit (IRET), Gladstone Commercial (GOOD), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Whitestone REIT (WSR), Gyrodyne (GYRO) and RAIT Financial Trust (RAS).

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Cousins Properties' stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (5.29%), Daiwa Securities Group Inc. (2.28%), Zimmer Partners LP (2.11%), Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. (1.49%), Scout Investments Inc. (0.75%) and Millennium Management LLC (0.55%). Company insiders that own Cousins Properties stock include Edward Manuel Casal, John S Mccoll, Lawrence L Gellerstedt III and S Taylor Glover. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Cousins Properties.

CUZ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Barclays PLC, State Street Corp, Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL, Voya Investment Management LLC, Man Group plc, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Metropolitan Life Insurance Co NY and First Trust Advisors LP. View Insider Buying and Selling for Cousins Properties.

CUZ stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Zimmer Partners LP, Daiwa Securities Group Inc., Millennium Management LLC, California Public Employees Retirement System, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Green Street Investors LLC, Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Cousins Properties.

Shares of CUZ 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CUZ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $40.47.

Cousins Properties has a market capitalization of $5.94 billion and generates $475.21 million in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $79.16 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.52 on an earnings per share basis. Cousins Properties employs 257 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Cousins Properties.

The official website for Cousins Properties is http://www.cousins.com/.

Cousins Properties' mailing address is 3344 Peachtree Road NE Suite1800, ATLANTA GA, 30326. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at 404-407-1000 or via email at [email protected]