NYSE:EQHEquitable Stock Price, Forecast & News

Equitable's stock was trading at $15.82 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, EQH shares have increased by 20.8% and is now trading at $19.11. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Equitable in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Equitable.

Equitable is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 13th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Equitable.

Equitable Holdings Inc (NYSE:EQH) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May, 7th. The company reported $1.08 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.14 by $0.06. The firm earned $12.59 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.47 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.98 earnings per share. View Equitable's earnings history.

Equitable announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 20th. Investors of record on Monday, June 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.17 per share on Tuesday, June 9th. This represents a $0.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.56%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 29th. This is a boost from Equitable's previous quarterly dividend of $0.15. View Equitable's dividend history.

7 analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Equitable's stock. Their forecasts range from $17.00 to $28.00. On average, they anticipate Equitable's stock price to reach $22.14 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 15.9% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Equitable.

Media stories about EQH stock have been trending somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by analyzing 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 closest to five being the most favorable. Equitable earned a media sentiment score of -1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View the latest news aboutEquitable.

Equitable saw a increase in short interest in May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 18,920,000 shares, an increase of 10.8% from the April 30th total of 17,080,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,630,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.1 days. Currently, 4.7% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Equitable's Current Options Chain.

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(EQH) raised $3.5 billion in an initial public offering on Thursday, May 10th 2018. The company issued 137,300,000 shares at a price of $24.00-$27.00 per share. Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Barclays and Citigroup acted as the underwriters for the IPO and BofA Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman Sachs, BNP PARIBAS, SOCIETE GENERALE, ING, Credit Agricole CIB, HSBC, Natixis, RBC Capital Markets, Lazard, BBVA, COMMERZBANK, Mizuho Securities, MUFG, PNC Capital Markets, SMBC Nikko, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and UniCredit Capital Markets were co-managers.

Equitable trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "EQH."

Equitable's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (9.10%), Invesco Ltd. (5.49%), Pzena Investment Management LLC (4.76%), Wellington Management Group LLP (4.43%), Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (3.67%) and State Street Corp (2.61%). Company insiders that own Equitable stock include Anders Malmstrom, Axa, Daniel G Kaye, George Stansfield, Mark Pearson, Nick Lane, Ramon De Oliveira and William James Iv Eckert. View institutional ownership trends for Equitable.

EQH stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Alyeska Investment Group L.P., AJO LP, Two Sigma Investments LP, AQR Capital Management LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley, and Mackay Shields LLC. Company insiders that have sold Equitable company stock in the last year include Axa, and William James Iv Eckert. View insider buying and selling activity for Equitable.

EQH stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Wellington Management Group LLP, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Pzena Investment Management LLC, MERIAN GLOBAL INVESTORS UK Ltd, Clearbridge Investments LLC, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, and Janus Henderson Group PLC. Company insiders that have bought Equitable stock in the last two years include Anders Malmstrom, Daniel G Kaye, George Stansfield, Mark Pearson, Nick Lane, and Ramon De Oliveira. View insider buying and selling activity for Equitable.

Shares of EQH 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 EQH stock can currently be purchased for approximately $19.11.

Equitable has a market capitalization of $8.61 billion and generates $9.59 billion in revenue each year. Equitable employs 7,800 workers across the globe.

The official website for Equitable is www.equitableholdings.com.

Equitable's mailing address is 1290 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY, 10104. The company can be reached via phone at 212-314-2010 or via email at [email protected]