Diageo - DEO Stock Forecast, Price & News

9 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Diageo in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 2 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" DEO shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in DEO, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Diageo's stock was trading at $220.14 at the beginning of the year. Since then, DEO shares have decreased by 14.2% and is now trading at $188.96.
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Diageo saw a decrease in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 562,800 shares, a decrease of 39.3% from the July 15th total of 927,500 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 430,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.3 days. Approximately 0.1% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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Diageo announced a semi-annual dividend on Thursday, August 4th. Stockholders of record on Friday, August 26th will be paid a dividend of $2.2775 per share on Tuesday, October 25th. This represents a dividend yield of 2%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 25th. This is a boost from the stock's previous semi-annual dividend of $1.57.
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Diageo (NYSE:DEO) pays an annual dividend of $3.05 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.62%.
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724 employees have rated Diageo Chief Executive Officer Ivan Menezes on Glassdoor.com. Ivan Menezes has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Ivan Menezes in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Diageo trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "DEO."

Diageo's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (0.51%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (0.39%), AKO Capital LLP (0.30%), BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA (0.30%), Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (0.21%) and Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.15%).

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One share of DEO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $188.96.

Diageo (NYSE:DEO) has a market capitalization of $108.07 billion and generates $19.43 billion in revenue each year.

The company employs 28,025 workers across the globe.

Diageo was founded in 1997.

Diageo's mailing address is LAKESIDE DRIVE PARK ROYAL, LONDON X0, NW10 7HQ. The official website for the company is www.diageo.com. The company can be reached via phone at 442089786000, via email at investor.relations@diageo.com, or via fax at 44-20-8978-8501.