NYSE:EXC - Exelon Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Exelon announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, November 1st. Investors of record on Friday, November 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.3625 per share on Tuesday, December 10th. This represents a $1.45 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.03%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 14th. View Exelon's Dividend History.

Exelon Co. (NYSE:EXC) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 31st. The energy giant reported $0.92 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.89 by $0.03. The energy giant earned $9.40 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $8.70 billion. Exelon had a net margin of 6.43% and a return on equity of 8.47%. The firm's revenue was up 16.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.88 earnings per share. View Exelon's Earnings History.

Exelon is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, February 14th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Exelon.

12 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for Exelon's stock. Their forecasts range from $46.00 to $60.00. On average, they anticipate Exelon's share price to reach $52.36 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 9.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Exelon.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Exelon in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Exelon.

Headlines about EXC stock have trended negative on Friday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Exelon earned a coverage optimism score of -2.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the energy giant a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Exelon.

Exelon saw a drop in short interest in December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 13,520,000 shares, a drop of 16.0% from the November 28th total of 16,100,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 6,680,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.0 days. Currently, 1.4% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Exelon's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Exelon include NextEra Energy (NEE), Southern (SO), Duke Energy (DUK), American Electric Power (AEP), Xcel Energy (XEL), Eversource Energy (ES), Edison International (EIX), FirstEnergy (FE), PPL (PPL), Entergy (ETR), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR) and Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Exelon investors own include AT&T (T), PepsiCo (PEP), Verizon Communications (VZ), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Intel (INTC), General Electric (GE), Xcel Energy (XEL), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Pfizer (PFE) and Exxon Mobil (XOM).

Exelon's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include PGGM Investments (0.12%), Hexavest Inc. (0.06%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.05%), Strs Ohio (0.05%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.05%) and 6 Meridian (0.04%). Company insiders that own Exelon stock include Calvin Butler Jr, Joseph Nigro, Kenneth W Cornew and Paymon Aliabadi. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Exelon.

EXC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc., Hexavest Inc., Calamos Advisors LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Strs Ohio, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH and Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI. Company insiders that have sold Exelon company stock in the last year include Calvin Butler Jr, Joseph Nigro, Kenneth W Cornew 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 Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank, Beech Hill Advisors Inc., Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, Farmers & Merchants Investments Inc., Diversified Trust Co and Planning Directions 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of EXC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $47.92.

Exelon has a market capitalization of $46.58 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.View Additional Information About Exelon.

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.