Diageo (DEO) Stock Forecast, Price & News

10 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Diageo in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities 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 $178.19 at the beginning of the year. Since then, DEO shares have decreased by 2.3% and is now trading at $174.07.
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Diageo saw a decrease in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,690,000 shares, a decrease of 5.1% from the April 30th total of 1,780,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 376,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.5 days. Currently, 0.3% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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Diageo announced a semi-annual dividend on Tuesday, February 28th. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 3rd will be given a dividend of $1.5187 per share on Tuesday, April 18th. This represents a yield of 2.06%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 2nd. This is an increase from the stock's previous semi-annual dividend of $1.43.
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Diageo (NYSE:DEO) pays an annual dividend of $3.04 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.75%. The dividend payout ratio is 34.47%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, DEO will have a dividend payout ratio of 35.43% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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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 many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Bank of America Corp DE (0.92%), FMR LLC (0.61%), Clearbridge Investments LLC (0.42%), UBS Group AG (0.37%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.36%) and London Co. of Virginia (0.30%).

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One share of DEO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $174.07.

Diageo (NYSE:DEO) has a market capitalization of $98.16 billion and generates $19.43 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $4.32 billion in net income (profit) each year or $8.82 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 28,137 workers across the globe.

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 442079479100, via email at investor.relations@diageo.com, or via fax at 44-20-8978-8501.