NYSE:EXC - Exelon Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

Exelon announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 1st. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, May 15th will be given a dividend of $0.345 per share on Friday, June 8th. This represents a $1.38 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.33%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, May 14th. View Exelon's Dividend History.

Exelon Co. (NYSE:EXC) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May, 2nd. The energy giant reported $0.96 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.93 by $0.03. The energy giant had revenue of $9.69 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $9.01 billion. Exelon had a return on equity of 9.17% and a net margin of 10.06%. The company's revenue was up 10.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.65 EPS. View Exelon's Earnings History.

Exelon is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August, 1st 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Exelon.

Exelon issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Wednesday, May, 2nd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.90-3.20 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $3.06. Exelon also updated its Q2 guidance to $0.55-0.65 EPS.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Exelon's stock. Their forecasts range from $40.00 to $45.00. On average, they expect Exelon's share price to reach $42.6923 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Exelon.

Exelon saw a increase in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totalling 31,079,847 shares, an increase of 39.6% from the April 30th total of 22,257,043 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 7,101,724 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.4 days. Approximately 3.2% of the company's shares are sold short. View Exelon's Current Options Chain.

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Headlines about EXC stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. Accern ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Exelon earned a news sentiment score of 0.24 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news stories about the energy giant an impact score of 47.95 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

Exelon's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (7.38%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.89%), Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (1.29%), LSV Asset Management (1.25%), Northern Trust Corp (1.16%) and FIL Ltd (0.99%). 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 CI Global Investments Inc., Millennium Management LLC, Element Capital Management LLC, Wells Fargo & Company MN, Franklin Resources Inc., Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, California Public Employees Retirement System and Swiss National Bank. Company insiders that have sold Exelon company stock in the last year include Calvin Butler Jr, Denis P O'brien, Jonathan W Thayer, Kenneth W Cornew, Mayo A Shattuck III 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 Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, State Treasurer State of Michigan, Prudential Financial Inc., Lord Abbett & CO. LLC, LSV Asset Management, Forsta AP Fonden, Royal Bank of Canada and Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc.. 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 $41.43.

Exelon has a market capitalization of $40.17 billion and generates $33.53 billion in revenue each year. The energy giant earns $3.77 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.60 on an earnings per share basis. Exelon employs 34,621 workers across the globe.

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.