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 data on Friday, May, 4th. The financial services provider reported $1.13 earnings per share (EPS) 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 net margin of 68.82% and a return on equity of 18.80%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 31.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.72 EPS. 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 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Essent Group's shares. Their predictions range from $38.00 to $62.00. On average, they expect Essent Group's share price to reach $51.75 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Essent Group.

Essent Group saw a increase in short interest in 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 days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.7 days. Approximately 1.7% of the shares of the company 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).

News headlines about ESNT stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than 20 million news and blog 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 daily sentiment score of 0.10 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media stories about the financial services provider an impact score of 45.85 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term.

Essent Group's stock is owned by many different 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 purchased 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 $37.21.

Essent Group has a market capitalization of $3.74 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]