Equinor ASA - EQNR Stock Forecast, Price & News

16 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Equinor ASA in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 9 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" EQNR shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in EQNR, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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16 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Equinor ASA's stock. Their EQNR share price forecasts range from $42.02 to $400.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $318.63 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1,077.5% from the stock's current price.
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Equinor ASA's stock was trading at $35.81 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, EQNR shares have decreased by 24.4% and is now trading at $27.06.
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Equinor ASA saw a decline in short interest during the month of February. As of February 15th, there was short interest totaling 6,210,000 shares, a decline of 10.5% from the January 31st total of 6,940,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 3,230,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.9 days. Currently, 0.2% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 3rd 2023.
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Equinor ASA (NYSE:EQNR) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 26th. The company reported $0.85 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.62 by $0.23. The business had revenue of $23.26 billion for the quarter. Equinor ASA had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 50.09% and a net margin of 19.11%.

Equinor ASA declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, December 14th. Investors of record on Tuesday, January 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.20 per share on Wednesday, January 25th. This represents a $0.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.96%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, January 9th.
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Equinor ASA (NYSE:EQNR) pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.47%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 7.51%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EQNR will have a dividend payout ratio of 12.48% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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131 employees have rated Equinor ASA Chief Executive Officer Eldar Sætre on Glassdoor.com. Eldar Sætre has an approval rating of 70% among the company's employees.

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Equinor ASA trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "EQNR."

Equinor ASA's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Folketrygdfondet (0.00%), Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership (0.00%), Earnest Partners LLC (0.00%), Bank of America Corp DE (0.00%), Morgan Stanley (0.00%) and Todd Asset Management LLC (0.00%).

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One share of EQNR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $27.06.

The company employs 21,126 workers across the globe.

Equinor ASA's mailing address is FORUSBEEN 50, STAVANGER Q8, N 4035. The official website for the company is www.equinor.com. The company can be reached via phone at (475) 199-0000, via email at irpost@statoil.com, or via fax at 011-47-5199-0050.