Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:ELP)

2 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" ELP shares.
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Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL's stock was trading at $7.19 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, ELP stock has increased by 33.0% and is now trading at $9.56.
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Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL saw a drop in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,280,000 shares, a drop of 6.6% from the October 31st total of 1,370,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 717,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.8 days. Currently, 0.4% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2024.
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Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (NYSE:ELP) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, March, 28th. The utilities provider reported ($0.09) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.53 by $0.62. The utilities provider earned $1.04 billion during the quarter. Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL had a net margin of 9.27% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.18%.

Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, September 21st. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, October 3rd will be given a dividend of $0.119 per share on Monday, December 11th. This represents a $0.48 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.98%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, October 2nd.
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Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (NYSE:ELP) pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 10.48%. ELP has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer.
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1 employees have rated Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL Chief Executive Officer Raul Munhoz Neto on Glassdoor.com. Raul Munhoz Neto has an approval rating of -100% among the company's employees. This puts Raul Munhoz Neto in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Letko Brosseau & Associates Inc. (1.01%), Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.32%), Optiver Holding B.V. (0.15%), American Century Companies Inc. (0.04%), Compagnie Lombard Odier SCmA (0.03%) and LPL Financial LLC (0.02%).

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