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

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

Exelon declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 1st. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, May 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.345 per share on Friday, June 8th. This represents a $1.38 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.32%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, May 14th. View Exelon's Dividend History.

Exelon Co. (NYSE:EXC) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, May, 2nd. The energy giant reported $0.96 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.93 by $0.03. The energy giant earned $9.69 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $9.01 billion. Exelon had a net margin of 10.06% and a return on equity of 9.17%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 10.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $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 (EPS) guidance of $2.90-3.20 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $3.06. Exelon also updated its Q2 guidance to $0.55-0.65 EPS.

14 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Exelon's shares. Their predictions range from $40.00 to $45.00. On average, they expect Exelon's stock 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 trading volume of 7,101,724 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.4 days. Currently, 3.2% of the shares of the stock are short sold.

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

Headlines about EXC stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Exelon earned a media sentiment score of 0.22 on Accern's scale. They also gave news articles about the energy giant an impact score of 44.90 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days.

Exelon's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail 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 bought 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 $41.61.

Exelon has a market capitalization of $40.05 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.