Entergy Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:ETR)

11 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Entergy in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" ETR shares.
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11 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for Entergy's stock. Their ETR share price targets range from $94.00 to $135.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $112.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 9.8% from the stock's current price.
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Entergy's stock was trading at $112.50 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, ETR shares have decreased by 9.3% and is now trading at $102.01.
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Entergy saw a increase in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,240,000 shares, an increase of 24.4% from the October 31st total of 1,800,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,620,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.4 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 15th 2024.
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Entergy Co. (NYSE:ETR) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, November, 1st. The utilities provider reported $3.27 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.97 by $0.30. The utilities provider earned $3.60 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.22 billion. Entergy had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.77% and a net margin of 11.56%. During the same period last year, the firm earned $2.84 EPS.
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Entergy declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, October 27th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, November 14th will be given a dividend of $1.13 per share on Friday, December 1st. This represents a $4.52 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.43%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, November 13th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $1.07.
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Entergy (NYSE:ETR) pays an annual dividend of $4.52 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.50%. ETR has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company has been increasing its dividend for 9 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 64.94%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, ETR will have a dividend payout ratio of 62.60% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Entergy (NYSE:ETR) stock in their portfolio include Virtus Reaves Utilities ETF (UTES), First Trust Utilities AlphaDEX Fund (FXU), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Utilities ETF (RYU), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Utilities ETF (RSPU), Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLU), Sound Equity Dividend Income ETF (DIVY), Sound Equity Income ETF (SDEI) and Fidelity MSCI Utilities Index ETF (FUTY).

Entergy updated its FY23 earnings guidance on Wednesday, November, 1st. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $6.65-6.85 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $6.71.

82 employees have rated Entergy Chief Executive Officer Leo Denault on Glassdoor.com. Leo Denault has an approval rating of 88% among the company's employees.

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Entergy's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (2.16%), Ameriprise Financial Inc. (2.13%), Invesco Ltd. (2.07%), Newport Trust Company LLC (1.40%), Boston Partners (1.32%) and Federated Hermes Inc. (1.25%). Insiders that own company stock include Alexis M Herman, Alexis M Herman, Andrew S Marsh, Andrew S Marsh, Deanna D Rodriguez, Haley Fisackerly, Kimberly A Fontan, Kimberly A Fontan, Laura R Landreaux, Laura R Landreaux, Leo P Denault, Marcus V Brown, Marcus V Brown, Paul D Hinnenkamp, Paul D Hinnenkamp, Peter S Norgeot Jr and Phillip R May Jr.
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