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 (WHO). Since then, DEO stock has increased by 2.9% and is now trading at $135.14.
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20 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Diageo in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 9 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Diageo announced a semi-annual dividend on Wednesday, August 5th. Stockholders of record on Friday, August 14th will be paid a dividend of $1.3623 per share on Wednesday, October 14th. This represents a dividend yield of 2.5%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 13th.
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20 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price objectives 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 9.0%.
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Media stories about DEO stock have been trending positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive press 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 coverage optimism score of 2.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days.
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Diageo saw a decline in short interest in the month of July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totaling 524,000 shares, a decline of 25.7% from the June 30th total of 705,300 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 431,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.2 days. Currently, 0.1% of the company's shares are short sold.
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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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Nuance Investments LLC (0.18%), Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.16%), Schafer Cullen Capital Management Inc (0.15%), DAVENPORT & Co LLC (0.10%), Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado (0.08%) and Douglas Lane & Associates LLC (0.07%).

DEO stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Schafer Cullen Capital Management Inc, Cullen Capital Management LLC, General American Investors Co. Inc., Confluence Investment Management LLC, Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC, Ipswich Investment Management Co. Inc., Jones Financial Companies Lllp, and Whittier Trust Co..

DEO stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including DAVENPORT & Co LLC, Professional Advisory Services Inc., St. James Investment Company LLC, Nuance Investments LLC, Campbell Capital Management Inc., Value Partners Investments Inc., Raymond James & Associates, and Live Oak Private Wealth LLC.

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 $135.14.

Diageo has a market capitalization of $78.96 billion and generates $14.82 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $1.78 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.50 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]