Ecopetrol (EC) Stock Price, News & Analysis

6 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ecopetrol in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 sell ratings and 4 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "reduce" EC shares.
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6 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Ecopetrol's stock. Their EC share price targets range from $8.50 to $12.50. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $11.27 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.6%.
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Ecopetrol's stock was trading at $11.92 at the start of the year. Since then, EC stock has decreased by 1.9% and is now trading at $11.69.
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Ecopetrol saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 9,030,000 shares, an increase of 10.8% from the March 15th total of 8,150,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,990,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.5 days. Currently, 0.4% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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Ecopetrol S.A. (NYSE:EC) released its earnings results on Thursday, April, 18th. The oil and gas company reported $0.74 earnings per share for the quarter. The oil and gas company had revenue of $8.59 billion for the quarter. Ecopetrol had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.84% and a net margin of 14.77%.

Ecopetrol declared a -- dividend on Tuesday, March 26th. Investors of record on Tuesday, June 25th will be given a dividend of $0.7999 per share on Wednesday, July 3rd. This represents a dividend yield of 19.5%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, June 25th.
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Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) pays an annual dividend of $2.13 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 19.02%. EC has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The dividend payout ratio is 89.50%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on EPS estimates, EC will have a dividend payout ratio of 81.61% in the coming year. This indicates that the company may not be able to sustain their current dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) stock in their portfolio include First Trust Indxx Global Natural Resources Income ETF (FTRI), Amplify International Enhanced Dividend Income ETF (IDVO) and Virtus Real Asset Income ETF (VRAI).iShares Latin America 40 ETF (ILF).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Ecopetrol investors own include Energy Transfer (ET), NVIDIA (NVDA), General Electric (GE), Gladstone Land (LAND), Halliburton (HAL), Martin Midstream Partners (MMLP), Micron Technology (MU), Pfizer (PFE), PayPal (PYPL) and Bank of America (BAC).

Ecopetrol's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Capital Wealth Planning LLC (0.00%), Anthracite Investment Company Inc. (0.01%), Stokes Family Office LLC (0.00%), Henry James International Management Inc. (0.00%), Quantbot Technologies LP (0.00%) and SeaCrest Wealth Management LLC (0.00%).

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