NYSE:EEEl Paso Electric Stock Price, Forecast & News

El Paso Electric's stock was trading at $67.75 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, EE stock has increased by 0.3% and is now trading at $67.97. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

El Paso Electric is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 4th 2020. View our earnings forecast for El Paso Electric.

El Paso Electric (NYSE:EE) issued its quarterly earnings data on Friday, May, 8th. The utilities provider reported ($0.21) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of ($0.13) by $0.08. The utilities provider had revenue of $158.56 million for the quarter. El Paso Electric had a net margin of 9.66% and a return on equity of 7.55%. View El Paso Electric's earnings history.

El Paso Electric announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 28th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, March 17th will be paid a dividend of $0.385 per share on Tuesday, March 31st. This represents a $1.54 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.27%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, March 16th. View El Paso Electric's dividend history.

Media headlines about EE stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. El Paso Electric earned a coverage optimism score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutEl Paso Electric.

El Paso Electric saw a increase in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,430,000 shares, an increase of 9.2% from the April 30th total of 1,310,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 665,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.1 days. Approximately 3.6% of the shares of the company are short sold. View El Paso Electric's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other El Paso Electric investors own include Altria Group (MO), Cisco Systems (CSCO), AT&T (T), AbbVie (ABBV), Verizon Communications (VZ), Walmart (WMT), Bank of America (BAC), Dominion Energy (D), Delta Air Lines (DAL) and General Electric (GE).

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

El Paso Electric's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (15.50%), Gabelli Funds LLC (4.95%), State Street Corp (3.51%), Alpine Associates Management Inc. (2.93%), Gamco Investors INC. ET AL (2.79%) and Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo & Co. LLC (1.70%). 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 CNH Partners LLC, Citigroup Inc., Gamco Investors INC. ET AL, BlackRock Inc., Wellington Management Group LLP, Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund, Weiss Multi Strategy Advisers LLC, and BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA. 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 activity for El Paso Electric.

EE stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo & Co. LLC, Beryl Capital Management LLC, GABELLI & Co INVESTMENT ADVISERS INC., Gabelli Funds LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley, and Alpine Associates Management Inc.. View insider buying and selling activity 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 $67.97.

El Paso Electric has a market capitalization of $2.77 billion and generates $861.99 million in revenue each year. El Paso Electric employs 1,100 workers across the globe.

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

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