NYSE:ESNT - Essent Group Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

Essent Group Ltd (NYSE:ESNT) announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, May, 4th. The financial services provider reported $1.13 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.10 by $0.03. The financial services provider earned $167.50 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $165.81 million. Essent Group had a return on equity of 18.80% and a net margin of 68.82%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 31.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.72 earnings per share. View Essent Group's Earnings History.

Essent Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, August, 3rd 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Essent Group.

10 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Essent Group's stock. Their forecasts range from $38.00 to $62.00. On average, they expect Essent Group's share price to reach $51.75 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Essent Group.

Essent Group saw a increase in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totalling 1,486,923 shares, an increase of 51.2% from the April 30th total of 983,697 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 855,121 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.7 days. Approximately 1.7% of the company's stock are short sold. View Essent Group's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Essent Group include Old Republic International (ORI), MGIC Investment (MTG), Assured Guaranty (AGO), Radian Group (RDN), NMI (NMIH), Ambac Financial Group (AMBC), MBIA (MBI) and Syncora (SYCRF).

Media stories about ESNT stock have trended somewhat positive on Saturday, Accern reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Essent Group earned a news impact score of 0.04 on Accern's scale. They also gave news headlines about the financial services provider an impact score of 45.97 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future.

Essent Group's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (7.98%), Boston Partners (2.41%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (1.88%), Westfield Capital Management Co. LP (1.44%), Old Mutual Global Investors UK Ltd. (1.10%) and Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. (0.95%). Company insiders that own Essent Group stock include (Cayman) Co Pbra, Andrew Turnbull, David B Weinstock, Jeff Cashmer, Lawrence E Mcalee Jr, Mark Casale, Mary Lourdes Gibbons, Robert Glanville and Vijay Bhasin. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Essent Group.

ESNT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including American Century Companies Inc., Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P., Victory Capital Management Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Company MN, Mckinley Capital Management LLC Delaware, Westfield Capital Management Co. LP and BlackRock Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Essent Group company stock in the last year include Andrew Turnbull, David B Weinstock, Lawrence E Mcalee Jr, Mark Casale, Mary Lourdes Gibbons and Robert Glanville. View Insider Buying and Selling for Essent Group.

ESNT stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Boston Partners, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Old Mutual Global Investors UK Ltd., Millennium Management LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., FIL Ltd, Waterstone Capital Management L.P. and Hsbc Holdings PLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Essent Group.

Shares of ESNT 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ESNT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $37.23.

Essent Group has a market capitalization of $3.68 billion and generates $576.51 million in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $379.74 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.10 on an earnings per share basis. Essent Group employs 397 workers across the globe.

Essent Group's mailing address is 2 CHURCH STREET, HAMILTON D0, HM 11. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 441-297-9901 or via email at [email protected]