NYSE:EE - El Paso Electric Stock Price, Forecast & News

El Paso Electric trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "EE."

El Paso Electric announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 17th. Investors of record on Friday, December 13th will be paid a dividend of $0.385 per share on Friday, December 27th. This represents a $1.54 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.25%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 12th. View El Paso Electric's Dividend History.

El Paso Electric (NYSE:EE) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August, 2nd. The utilities provider reported $0.76 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.88 by $0.12. The utilities provider earned $236.80 million during the quarter. El Paso Electric had a return on equity of 7.85% and a net margin of 10.99%. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.89 EPS. View El Paso Electric's Earnings History.

El Paso Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 26th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for El Paso Electric.

3 analysts have issued 1 year price targets for El Paso Electric's shares. Their forecasts range from $53.00 to $58.00. On average, they anticipate El Paso Electric's share price to reach $55.33 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 19.0%. View Analyst Price Targets for El Paso Electric.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for El Paso Electric in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for El Paso Electric.

Media headlines about EE stock have been trending somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of media 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. El Paso Electric earned a coverage optimism score of -1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for El Paso Electric.

El Paso Electric saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,060,000 shares, an increase of 6.0% from the January 15th total of 1,000,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 243,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.4 days. Currently, 2.6% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View El Paso Electric's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to El Paso Electric include NextEra Energy (NEE), Duke Energy (DUK), Southern (SO), American Electric Power (AEP), Exelon (EXC), Xcel Energy (XEL), Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Edison International (EIX), PPL (PPL), Entergy (ETR), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA) and Portland General Electric (POR).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other El Paso Electric investors own include Altria Group (MO), AT&T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ), General Electric (GE), Cisco Systems (CSCO), AbbVie (ABBV), Dominion Energy (D), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), Southern (SO) and Kraft Heinz (KHC).

El Paso Electric's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Gabelli Funds LLC (4.49%), State Street Corp (3.33%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (3.21%), CNH Partners LLC (1.98%), First Trust Advisors LP (1.74%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.47%). Company insiders that own El Paso Electric stock include Edward Escudero, Eric B Siegel and Stephen Wertheimer. View Institutional Ownership Trends for El Paso Electric.

EE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Renaissance Technologies LLC, Gabelli Funds LLC, Jennison Associates LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Arizona State Retirement System, Citigroup Inc. and Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board. Company insiders that have sold El Paso Electric company stock in the last year include Edward Escudero, Eric B Siegel and Stephen Wertheimer. View Insider Buying and Selling for El Paso Electric.

EE stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Candriam Luxembourg S.C.A., Beryl Capital Management LLC, State Street Corp, First Trust Advisors LP, Credit Suisse AG, Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, Bank of America Corp DE and UBS Group AG. View Insider Buying and Selling for El Paso Electric.

Shares of EE 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 EE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $68.32.

El Paso Electric has a market capitalization of $2.78 billion and generates $903.60 million in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $84.32 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.33 on an earnings per share basis. El Paso Electric employs 1,100 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About El Paso Electric.

The official website for El Paso Electric is http://www.epelectric.com/.

El Paso Electric's mailing address is STANTON TOWER 100 NORTH STANTON STREET, EL PASO TX, 79901. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 915-543-5711 or via email at [email protected]