NYSE:DOV - Dover Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Dover announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 7th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 29th will be given a dividend of $0.49 per share on Monday, December 16th. This represents a $1.96 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.66%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 27th. View Dover's Dividend History.

Dover Corp (NYSE:DOV) posted 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 period in the previous year, the firm earned $1.36 EPS. View Dover's Earnings History.

Dover is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 30th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Dover.

Dover will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, January 30th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

9 brokerages have issued 1-year price targets for Dover's shares. Their forecasts range from $91.00 to $132.00. On average, they expect Dover's share price to reach $109.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.5%. 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 stories about DOV stock have trended negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Dover earned a news sentiment score of -2.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. 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 days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.2 days. Currently, 2.6% of the company's stock are sold short. View Dover's Current Options Chain.

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Dover's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.71%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.14%), Welch & Forbes LLC (0.12%), Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.10%), TIAA FSB (0.07%) and Farmers & Merchants Investments Inc. (0.06%). 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, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, United Services Automobile Association, American Research & Management Co., Farmers & Merchants Investments Inc. and Welch & Forbes LLC. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including TIAA FSB, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, Tuttle Tactical Management, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Sciencast Management LP, TRH Financial LLC and Exchange Traded Concepts 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 $117.87.

Dover has a market capitalization of $17.12 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]