Consolidated Edison (ED) Stock Forecast, Price & News

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Consolidated Edison in the last twelve months. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" ED shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in ED, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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10 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Consolidated Edison's shares. Their ED share price forecasts range from $69.00 to $104.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $91.42 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.5%.
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Consolidated Edison's stock was trading at $95.31 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, ED shares have decreased by 3.6% and is now trading at $91.91.
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Consolidated Edison saw a decrease in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 7,700,000 shares, a decrease of 10.4% from the April 30th total of 8,590,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,880,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.1 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 3rd 2023.
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Consolidated Edison, Inc. (NYSE:ED) released its earnings results on Thursday, May, 4th. The utilities provider reported $1.83 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.62 by $0.21. The utilities provider earned $4.40 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $4.01 billion. Consolidated Edison had a net margin of 15.56% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.36%. The company's revenue was up 8.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $1.47 EPS.

Consolidated Edison declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, April 20th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, May 17th will be given a dividend of $0.81 per share on Thursday, June 15th. This represents a $3.24 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.53%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, May 16th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Consolidated Edison (NYSE:ED) stock in their portfolio include Timothy Plan Market Neutral ETF (TPMN), iShares Global Clean Energy ETF (ICLN), Subversive Decarbonization ETF (DKRB), Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLU), First Trust Utilities AlphaDEX Fund (FXU), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Utilities ETF (RYU), BTD Capital Fund (DIP) and Fidelity MSCI Utilities Index ETF (FUTY).

Consolidated Edison (NYSE:ED) pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.47%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 50 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 46.15%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, ED will have a dividend payout ratio of 62.07% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Consolidated Edison issued an update on its FY23 earnings guidance on Thursday, May, 4th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $4.75-4.95 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $4.86.

211 employees have rated Consolidated Edison Chief Executive Officer John McAvoy on Glassdoor.com. John McAvoy has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts John McAvoy in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Consolidated Edison trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ED."

Consolidated Edison's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (12.82%), State Street Corp (7.50%), Geode Capital Management LLC (2.29%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (1.38%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.84%) and Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.58%). Insiders that own company stock include Deneen L Donnley, Frances Resheske, Gurudatta D Nadkarni, Gurudatta D Nadkarni, John Mcavoy, Joseph Miller, La Bastide Lore De, Matthew Ketschke, Nancy Shannon, Robert Muccilo, Robert N Hoglund, Robert Sanchez, Stuart Nachmias, Timothy Cawley and Yukari Saegusa.
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One share of ED stock can currently be purchased for approximately $91.91.

Consolidated Edison (NYSE:ED) has a market capitalization of $31.85 billion and generates $15.67 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $1.66 billion in net income (profit) each year or $7.02 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 14,319 workers across the globe.

Consolidated Edison's mailing address is 4 IRVING PLACE, NEW YORK NY, 10003. The official website for the company is www.conedison.com. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at (212) 460-4600, via email at dl-investorrelations@coned.com, or via fax at 212-475-0734.