NYSE:ELPCompanhia Paranaense de Energia Stock Price, Forecast & News

Companhia Paranaense de Energia's stock was trading at $12.84 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, ELP stock has decreased by 14.2% and is now trading at $11.02. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Companhia Paranaense de Energia in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Companhia Paranaense de Energia.

Companhia Paranaense de Energia is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 12th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Companhia Paranaense de Energia.

Companhia Paranaense de Energia (NYSE:ELP) announced its earnings results on Friday, May, 15th. The utilities provider reported $0.42 earnings per share for the quarter. The utilities provider earned $938.12 million during the quarter. Companhia Paranaense de Energia had a return on equity of 10.14% and a net margin of 12.14%. View Companhia Paranaense de Energia's earnings history.

Companhia Paranaense de Energia declared an annual dividend on Monday, December 9th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 27th will be paid a dividend of $0.488 per share on Monday, January 1st. This represents a yield of 2.89%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 26th. This is a positive change from Companhia Paranaense de Energia's previous annual dividend of $0.09. View Companhia Paranaense de Energia's dividend history.

Press coverage about ELP stock has been trending negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores 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 nearest to five being the most favorable. Companhia Paranaense de Energia earned a news sentiment score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View the latest news about Companhia Paranaense de Energia.

Companhia Paranaense de Energia saw a drop in short interest in the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 3,900,000 shares, a drop of 17.0% from the June 15th total of 4,700,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 737,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.3 days. Currently, 3.0% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Companhia Paranaense de Energia's Current Options Chain.

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Companhia Paranaense de Energia trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ELP."

Shares of ELP 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 ELP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $11.02.

Companhia Paranaense de Energia has a market capitalization of $3.02 billion and generates $3.95 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $504.25 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.60 on an earnings per share basis. Companhia Paranaense de Energia employs 7,266 workers across the globe.

The official website for Companhia Paranaense de Energia is www.copel.com.

Companhia Paranaense de Energia's mailing address is RUA CORONEL DULCIDIO 800, CURITIBA D5, 80420. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 55-41-3331-4011 or via email at [email protected]