NYSE:EXC - Exelon Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Exelon trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "EXC."

Exelon announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 5th. Investors of record on Wednesday, February 20th will be given a dividend of $0.3625 per share on Friday, March 8th. This represents a $1.45 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.00%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, February 19th. This is a positive change from Exelon's previous quarterly dividend of $0.35. View Exelon's Dividend History.

Exelon Co. (NYSE:EXC) issued its earnings results on Friday, February, 8th. The energy giant reported $0.58 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.57 by $0.01. The energy giant earned $8.81 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $6.60 billion. Exelon had a net margin of 5.58% and a return on equity of 9.18%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 5.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.55 EPS. View Exelon's Earnings History.

Exelon is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 1st 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Exelon.

Exelon issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Friday, February, 8th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $3.00-3.30 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.17. Exelon also updated its FY 2019 guidance to $3.00-3.30 EPS.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Exelon's stock. Their forecasts range from $40.00 to $51.00. On average, they expect Exelon's stock price to reach $46.8125 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.0%. View Analyst Price Targets for Exelon.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Exelon in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Exelon.

News coverage about EXC stock has trended somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog 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. Exelon earned a daily sentiment score of 1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the energy giant a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

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Exelon's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (7.78%), Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund (2.40%), LSV Asset Management (1.37%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.32%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.26%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.25%). Company insiders that own Exelon stock include Calvin Butler Jr, Denis P O'brien, Duane M Desparte, John W Rogers Jr, Jonathan W Thayer, Kenneth W Cornew, Mayo A Shattuck III and Paymon Aliabadi. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Exelon.

EXC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State Treasurer State of Michigan, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Energy Income Partners LLC, Squarepoint Ops LLC, KBC Group NV, Principal Financial Group Inc., State of Tennessee Treasury Department and Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd.. Company insiders that have sold Exelon company stock in the last year include Calvin Butler Jr and Paymon Aliabadi. View Insider Buying and Selling for Exelon.

EXC stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, BlackRock Inc., Swedbank, Bessemer Group Inc., California Public Employees Retirement System, Geode Capital Management LLC, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans and Northern Trust Corp. View Insider Buying and Selling for Exelon.

Shares of EXC 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 EXC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $48.26.

Exelon has a market capitalization of $46.80 billion and generates $35.99 billion in revenue each year. The energy giant earns $2.01 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.12 on an earnings per share basis. Exelon employs 34,621 workers across the globe.

The official website for Exelon is http://www.exeloncorp.com.

Exelon's mailing address is 10 South Dearborn Street P.O. Box 805379, CHICAGO IL, 60680. The energy giant can be reached via phone at 800-483-3220.