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

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

Exelon declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 5th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, February 20th will be paid 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 2.95%. The ex-dividend date 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 quarterly earnings data on Friday, February, 8th. The energy giant reported $0.58 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the 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 company's quarterly revenue was up 5.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.55 earnings per share. 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 (EPS) guidance of $3.00-3.30 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $3.17. Exelon also updated its FY 2019 guidance to $3.00-3.30 EPS.

16 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Exelon's stock. Their predictions range from $40.00 to $51.00. On average, they expect Exelon's share price to reach $46.8125 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.6%. 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 headlines about EXC stock have been trending somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie reports. The research group identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Exelon earned a media sentiment score of -1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the energy giant a news buzz of 9.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term.

Some companies that are related to Exelon include Duke Energy (DUK), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), E.ON SE Sponsored ADR (Germany) (EONGY), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), Alliant Energy (LNT), NiSource (NI), PG&E (PCG), United Utilities Group (UUGRY), SCANA (SCG), ALLETE (ALE), NorthWestern (NWE) and Avista (AVA).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Exelon investors own include General Electric (GE), Cisco Systems (CSCO), AT&T (T), Intel (INTC), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Verizon Communications (VZ), Pfizer (PFE), Mcdonald's (MCD), Bank of America (BAC) and Exxon Mobil (XOM).

Exelon's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (7.78%), FMR LLC (4.25%), Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund (2.40%), Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (2.07%), LSV Asset Management (1.37%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.32%). Company insiders that own Exelon stock include Calvin Butler Jr, Denis P O'brien, John W Rogers Jr, Jonathan W Thayer, Joseph Nigro, 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, APG Asset Management N.V., KBC Group NV, Principal Financial Group Inc. and State of Tennessee Treasury Department. Company insiders that have sold Exelon company stock in the last year include Joseph Nigro and Paymon Aliabadi. View Insider Buying and Selling for Exelon.

EXC stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, Norges Bank, BlackRock Inc., Swedbank, Bessemer Group Inc., California Public Employees Retirement System, Geode Capital Management LLC and Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC. 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 $49.08.

Exelon has a market capitalization of $47.60 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 33,383 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.