Essent Group - ESNT Stock Forecast, Price & News

5 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Essent Group in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" ESNT shares.
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5 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for Essent Group's stock. Their ESNT share price forecasts range from $43.00 to $50.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $46.20 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 18.6% from the stock's current price.
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Essent Group's stock was trading at $38.88 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, ESNT stock has increased by 0.2% and is now trading at $38.96.
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Essent Group saw a increase in short interest in the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 1,380,000 shares, an increase of 31.4% from the February 13th total of 1,050,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 436,400 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.2 days. Currently, 1.3% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, May 5th 2023.
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Essent Group Ltd. (NYSE:ESNT) issued its earnings results on Friday, February, 10th. The financial services provider reported $1.37 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.59 by $0.22. The financial services provider earned $230 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $245.56 million. Essent Group had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 19.28% and a net margin of 83.07%. Essent Group's quarterly revenue was down 10.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.64 EPS.

Essent Group announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 10th. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 10th will be given a dividend of $0.25 per share on Monday, March 20th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.57%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 9th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.23.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Essent Group (NYSE:ESNT) stock in their portfolio include Global X Founder-Run Companies ETF (BOSS), First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Archievers ETF (SDVY), Fidelity U.S. Multifactor ETF (FLRG), SPDR S&P Bank ETF (KBE), Invesco S&P MidCap Quality ETF (XMHQ), First Trust Mid Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund (FNK), Principal U.S. Small-Cap Multi-Factor ETF (PSC) and Fidelity Quality Factor ETF (FQAL).

Essent Group (NYSE:ESNT) pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.58%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 4 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 12.97%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, ESNT will have a dividend payout ratio of 14.64% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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6 employees have rated Essent Group Chief Executive Officer Mark A. Casale on Glassdoor.com. Mark A. Casale has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Mark A. Casale in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Essent Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ESNT."

Essent Group's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Cooke & Bieler LP (3.67%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (3.61%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.54%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.94%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (1.31%) and T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. (1.07%). Insiders that own company stock include Aditya Dutt, David B Weinstock, David B Weinstock, Douglas J Pauls, Lawrence E Mcalee Jr, Mark Casale, Mary Lourdes Gibbons, Robert Glanville, Roy James Kasmar, Vijay Bhasin and William Spiegel.
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One share of ESNT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $38.96.

Essent Group (NYSE:ESNT) has a market capitalization of $4.21 billion and generates $1.00 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $831.35 million in net income (profit) each year or $7.71 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 343 workers across the globe.

Essent Group's mailing address is 2 CHURCH STREET, HAMILTON D0, HM 11. The official website for the company is www.essentgroup.com. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at (441) 297-9901 or via email at ir@essentgroup.com.