Consolidated Edison - ED Stock Forecast, Price & News

11 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Consolidated Edison in the last twelve months. There are currently 5 sell ratings and 6 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research 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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11 analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Consolidated Edison's shares. Their ED share price forecasts range from $69.00 to $103.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $89.25 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.9%.
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Consolidated Edison's stock was trading at $95.31 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, ED stock has increased by 1.7% and is now trading at $96.91.
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Consolidated Edison saw a decline in short interest during the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 5,800,000 shares, a decline of 6.1% from the February 13th total of 6,180,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,690,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.4 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 4th 2023.
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Consolidated Edison, Inc. (NYSE:ED) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 16th. The utilities provider reported $0.81 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.78 by $0.03. The utilities provider earned $4.03 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.18 billion. Consolidated Edison had a net margin of 10.59% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 7.79%. The business's revenue was up 18.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $1.00 EPS.

Consolidated Edison declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, January 19th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, February 15th will be given a dividend of $0.81 per share on Wednesday, March 15th. This represents a $3.24 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.34%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, February 14th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.79.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Consolidated Edison (NYSE:ED) stock in their portfolio include iShares Global Clean Energy ETF (ICLN), Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLU), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Utilities ETF (RYU), First Trust Utilities AlphaDEX Fund (FXU), Vanguard Utilities Index Fund (VPU), Fidelity MSCI Utilities Index ETF (FUTY), iShares U.S. Utilities ETF (IDU) and VictoryShares Dividend Accelerator ETF (VSDA).

Consolidated Edison (NYSE:ED) pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.39%. 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 69.38%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, ED will have a dividend payout ratio of 63.53% 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 FY 2023 earnings guidance on Monday, February, 20th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $4.75-$4.95 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $4.82. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

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 a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Geode Capital Management LLC (2.20%), Legal & General Group Plc (1.74%), Moneta Group Investment Advisors LLC (1.17%), Morgan Stanley (1.16%), Lazard Asset Management LLC (1.11%) and Norges Bank (0.94%). 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 $96.91.

Consolidated Edison (NYSE:ED) has a market capitalization of $34.41 billion and generates $15.67 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $1.66 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.67 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.