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 3.33%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, May 14th. View Exelon's Dividend History.

Exelon Co. (NYSE:EXC) released its earnings results on Wednesday, May, 2nd. The energy giant reported $0.96 earnings per share (EPS) 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 return on equity of 9.17% and a net margin of 10.06%. The company's revenue was up 10.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.65 earnings per share. 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 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 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for Exelon's shares. Their predictions range from $40.00 to $45.00. On average, they anticipate Exelon's stock price to reach $42.6923 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Exelon.

Exelon saw a increase in short interest in 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 short-interest ratio is currently 4.4 days. Approximately 3.2% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Exelon's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Exelon include Duke Energy (DUK), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), PG&E (PCG), E.ON SE Sponsored ADR (Germany) (EONGY), 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).

News coverage about EXC stock has been trending positive this week, Accern reports. Accern identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Exelon earned a media sentiment score of 0.26 on Accern's scale. They also gave media coverage about the energy giant an impact score of 45.72 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term.

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 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 $41.50.

Exelon has a market capitalization of $40.00 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.