NYSE:DEODiageo Stock Price, Forecast & News

Diageo's stock was trading at $131.36 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, DEO shares have increased by 8.6% and is now trading at $142.61. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

19 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Diageo in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 8 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Diageo.

Diageo is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 23rd 2020. View our earnings forecast for Diageo.

Diageo declared a semi-annual dividend on Friday, January 31st. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 28th will be paid a dividend of $1.4355 per share on Tuesday, April 14th. This represents a dividend yield of 2.2%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 27th. View Diageo's dividend history.

19 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for Diageo's shares. Their forecasts range from $123.00 to $123.00. On average, they anticipate Diageo's share price to reach $123.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 13.8%. View analysts' price targets for Diageo.

Media stories about DEO stock have trended positive on Thursday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. 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. Diageo earned a news impact score of 2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. View the latest news about Diageo.

Diageo saw a drop in short interest in June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 693,400 shares, a drop of 6.1% from the June 15th total of 738,400 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 559,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.2 days. Currently, 0.1% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Diageo's Current Options Chain.

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

Diageo's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.16%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.04%), Scout Investments Inc. (0.01%), Lincoln Capital LLC (0.01%), JLB & Associates Inc. (0.01%) and Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.01%).

DEO stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Confluence Investment Management LLC, Ipswich Investment Management Co. Inc., Whittier Trust Co., Scout Investments Inc., CENTRAL TRUST Co, Sterling Investment Management Inc., Minot Wealth Management LLC, and Townsend & Associates Inc.

DEO stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Campbell Capital Management Inc., Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Manning & Napier Group LLC, Canandaigua National Corp, Ritholtz Wealth Management, JLB & Associates Inc., Clarius Group LLC, and Total Clarity Wealth Management Inc..

Shares of DEO 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 DEO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $142.61.

Diageo has a market capitalization of $83.33 billion and generates $16.65 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $4.09 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.75 on an earnings per share basis. Diageo employs 29,402 workers across the globe.

The official website for Diageo is www.diageo.com.

Diageo's mailing address is LAKESIDE DRIVE PARK ROYAL, LONDON X0, NW10 7HQ. The company can be reached via phone at 44-20-8978-6000 or via email at [email protected]