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

2 Wall Street equities 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 equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" ELP shares.
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Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL's stock was trading at $8.48 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, ELP shares have decreased by 16.7% and is now trading at $7.06.
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Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 964,100 shares, an increase of 60.9% from the March 15th total of 599,300 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 431,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.2 days. Approximately 1.2% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 8th 2024.
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Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (NYSE:ELP) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, March, 28th. The utilities provider reported ($0.07) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.42 by $0.50. The utilities provider earned $1.04 billion during the quarter. Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL had a net margin of 10.55% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.36%.

Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, September 21st. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, October 3rd will be paid a dividend of $0.0952 per share on Monday, December 11th. This represents a $0.38 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 5.39%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, October 2nd.
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Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (NYSE:ELP) pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.61%.
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Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL shares split before market open on Friday, December 29th 2023. The 5-4 split was announced on Friday, December 29th 2023. The newly issued shares were distributed to shareholders after the market closes on Friday, December 29th 2023. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 125 shares after the split.

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 investors include Atlas Capital Advisors LLC (0.01%), Norden Group LLC (0.00%), First Trust Direct Indexing L.P. (0.00%) and Ballentine Partners LLC (0.00%).

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