NYSE:ESNT - Essent Group Stock Price, News, Headlines & Rumors

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, August, 3rd. The financial services provider reported $1.14 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.06 by $0.08. The financial services provider had revenue of $173.77 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $174.06 million. Essent Group had a net margin of 71.08% and a return on equity of 19.37%. Essent Group's quarterly revenue was up 26.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.77 EPS. View Essent Group's Earnings History.

Essent Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November, 8th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Essent Group.

11 equities research analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Essent Group's stock. Their forecasts range from $38.00 to $62.00. On average, they expect Essent Group's stock price to reach $50.0682 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 22.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Essent Group.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Essent Group in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Essent Group.

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News coverage about ESNT stock has trended somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Essent Group earned a news impact score of 0.04 on Accern's scale. They also assigned headlines about the financial services provider an impact score of 44.35 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View Recent Headlines for Essent Group.

Essent Group's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (7.41%), FMR LLC (7.03%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (1.48%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (1.45%), Boston Partners (1.40%) and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.31%). 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 FMR LLC, Boston Partners, BlackRock Inc., Point72 Asset Management L.P., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Victory Capital Management Inc., Millennium Management LLC and Schwab Charles Investment Management 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 Wells Fargo & Company MN, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Capital Fund Management S.A., Macquarie Group Ltd., State of Wisconsin Investment Board and Garrison Bradford & Associates Inc.. 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 $41.01.

Essent Group has a market capitalization of $4.02 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]