NYSE:DOV - Dover Stock Price, Forecast & News

Dover trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "DOV."

Dover declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 7th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 29th will be paid a dividend of $0.49 per share on Monday, December 16th. This represents a $1.96 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.64%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 27th. View Dover's Dividend History.

Dover Corp (NYSE:DOV) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 17th. The industrial products company reported $1.60 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.51 by $0.09. The industrial products company earned $1.83 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.81 billion. Dover had a return on equity of 29.62% and a net margin of 9.08%. Dover's quarterly revenue was up 4.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $1.36 EPS. View Dover's Earnings History.

Dover is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 4th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Dover.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Dover's shares. Their forecasts range from $91.00 to $132.00. On average, they anticipate Dover's share price to reach $109.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 8.8%. View Analyst Price Targets for Dover.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Dover in the last year. There are currently 7 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Dover.

Media coverage about DOV stock has been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Dover earned a media sentiment score of 1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the industrial products company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Dover.

Dover saw a drop in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,680,000 shares, a drop of 7.1% from the December 15th total of 3,960,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 866,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.2 days. Currently, 2.6% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Dover's Current Options Chain.

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Dover's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.71%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.14%), Welch & Forbes LLC (0.12%), TIAA FSB (0.07%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.05%) and OLD National Bancorp IN (0.05%). Company insiders that own Dover stock include Anthony K Kosinski, Brad M Cerepak, Carrie L Anderson, Ivonne M Cabrera, Jay L Kloosterboer, Kristiane C Graham, Mary A Winston, Patrick Burns, Paul Goldberg, Stephen Gary Kennon and William Spurgeon. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Dover.

DOV stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, United Services Automobile Association, American Research & Management Co., Welch & Forbes LLC, Tributary Capital Management LLC and First Hawaiian Bank. Company insiders that have sold Dover company stock in the last year include Anthony K Kosinski, Brad M Cerepak, Carrie L Anderson, Ivonne M Cabrera, Jay L Kloosterboer, Kristiane C Graham and William Spurgeon. View Insider Buying and Selling for Dover.

DOV stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including TIAA FSB, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Tuttle Tactical Management, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Sciencast Management LP, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Contravisory Investment Management Inc. and F3Logic LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Dover.

Shares of DOV 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 DOV stock can currently be purchased for approximately $119.53.

Dover has a market capitalization of $17.36 billion and generates $6.99 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $570.26 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.97 on an earnings per share basis. Dover employs 24,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Dover.

The official website for Dover is http://www.dovercorporation.com/.

Dover's mailing address is 3005 HIGHLAND PARKWAY SUITE 200, DOWNERS GROVE IL, 60515. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 630-541-1540 or via email at [email protected]