NYSE:ESNT - Essent Group Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Essent Group Ltd (NYSE:ESNT) issued its quarterly earnings results on Friday, May, 3rd. The financial services provider reported $1.30 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.28 by $0.02. The financial services provider earned $200.53 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $196.94 million. Essent Group had a net margin of 64.33% and a return on equity of 21.36%. Essent Group's quarterly revenue was up 19.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.13 EPS. View Essent Group's Earnings History.

Essent Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, August 2nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Essent Group.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Essent Group's shares. Their forecasts range from $40.00 to $58.00. On average, they anticipate Essent Group's share price to reach $48.75 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 2.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Essent Group.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Essent Group in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Essent Group.

News coverage about ESNT stock has trended positive recently, according to InfoTrie. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news 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. Essent Group earned a daily sentiment score of 2.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the financial services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories 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 1,008,100 shares, an increase of 67.6% from the April 15th total of 601,500 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 618,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.6 days. Currently, 1.1% 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), Radian Group (RDN), Assured Guaranty (AGO), NMI (NMIH), MBIA (MBI), Ambac Financial Group (AMBC) and Syncora (SYCRF).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Essent Group investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Applied Materials (AMAT), Home Depot (HD), Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Micron Technology (MU), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Verizon Communications (VZ) and Adobe (ADBE).

Essent Group's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (8.68%), BlackRock Inc. (7.96%), Boston Partners (1.61%), Westfield Capital Management Co. LP (1.49%), Rothschild & Co. Asset Management US Inc. (0.88%) and Wells Fargo & Company MN (0.82%). Company insiders that own Essent Group stock include 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 Marshall Wace LLP, FMR LLC, Skyline Asset Management LP, Marshall Wace North America L.P., Wells Fargo & Company MN, Victory Capital Management Inc., Sapience Investments LLC and FIL Ltd. Company insiders that have sold Essent Group company stock in the last year include David B Weinstock, Jeff Cashmer, Lawrence E Mcalee Jr, Mary Lourdes Gibbons and Vijay Bhasin. View Insider Buying and Selling for Essent Group.

ESNT stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Clark Capital Management Group Inc., Westfield Capital Management Co. LP, AJO LP, JPMorgan Chase & Co., One Tusk Investment Partners LP, Bayview Asset Management LLC, Great Lakes Advisors LLC and Federated Investors Inc. PA. 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 $47.80.

Essent Group has a market capitalization of $4.70 billion and generates $719.35 million in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $467.36 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.85 on an earnings per share basis. View Additional Information About Essent Group.

The official website for Essent Group is http://www.essentgroup.com/.

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]