Essent Group Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:ESNT)

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

Essent Group announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, August 2nd. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, September 4th will be given a dividend of $0.15 per share on Monday, September 16th. This represents a $0.60 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.14%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, September 3rd. View Essent Group's Dividend History.

Essent Group Ltd (NYSE:ESNT) posted its earnings results on Friday, August, 2nd. The financial services provider reported $1.39 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.30 by $0.09. The financial services provider earned $211.89 million during the quarter. Essent Group had a net margin of 64.34% and a return on equity of 21.05%. View Essent Group's Earnings History.

Essent Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, November 8th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Essent Group.

Essent Group will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, November 8th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

3 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Essent Group's shares. Their forecasts range from $45.00 to $54.00. On average, they expect Essent Group's share price to reach $50.33 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.1%. View Analyst Price Targets for Essent Group.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Essent Group in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Essent Group.

Press coverage about ESNT stock has trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie reports. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Essent Group earned a coverage optimism score of -1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Essent Group.

Some companies that are related to Essent Group include Old Republic International (ORI), Radian Group (RDN), MGIC Investment (MTG), Assured Guaranty (AGO), NMI (NMIH), Ambac Financial Group (AMBC), MBIA (MBI) 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), Home Depot (HD), Paypal (PYPL), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Applied Materials (AMAT), Adobe (ADBE), CVS Health (CVS), Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO) and Verizon Communications (VZ).

Essent Group's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Peregrine Capital Management LLC (0.69%), Skyline Asset Management LP (0.23%), Strs Ohio (0.09%), Baltimore Washington Financial Advisors Inc. (0.08%), Bowling Portfolio Management LLC (0.04%) and Meeder Asset Management Inc. (0.04%). Company insiders that own Essent Group stock include Andrew Turnbull, David B Weinstock, Jeff Cashmer, Joseph Hissong, 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 Peregrine Capital Management LLC, Skyline Asset Management LP, Zeke Capital Advisors LLC, Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Convergence Investment Partners LLC, Baltimore Washington Financial Advisors Inc. and Nelson Van Denburg & Campbell Wealth Management Group LLC. Company insiders that have sold Essent Group company stock in the last year include David B Weinstock, Jeff Cashmer, Joseph Hissong, Lawrence E Mcalee Jr, Mary Lourdes Gibbons and Vijay Bhasin. View Insider Buying and Selling for Essent Group.

ESNT stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Strs Ohio, Winmill & CO. Inc., Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL, Meeder Asset Management Inc., Cim LLC, Fox Run Management L.L.C., Toth Financial Advisory Corp and Gradient Investments LLC. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ESNT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $52.46.

Essent Group has a market capitalization of $5.16 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]