NYSE:FE - FirstEnergy Stock Price, Price Target & More

FirstEnergy trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "FE."

FirstEnergy declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, March 20th. Investors of record on Monday, May 7th will be given a dividend of $0.36 per share on Friday, June 1st. This represents a $1.44 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.31%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, May 4th. View FirstEnergy's Dividend History.

FirstEnergy (NYSE:FE) issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, April, 23rd. The utilities provider reported $0.67 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.68 by $0.01. The utilities provider earned $2.90 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.36 billion. FirstEnergy had a negative net margin of 5.33% and a positive return on equity of 22.52%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 18.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.78 earnings per share. View FirstEnergy's Earnings History.

FirstEnergy is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July, 26th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for FirstEnergy.

FirstEnergy updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Monday, April, 23rd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.25-2.55 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.42.

16 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for FirstEnergy's shares. Their predictions range from $32.00 to $47.00. On average, they expect FirstEnergy's stock price to reach $35.6385 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for FirstEnergy.

FirstEnergy saw a drop in short interest in the month of April. As of April 13th, there was short interest totalling 32,294,420 shares, a drop of 7.7% from the March 30th total of 35,004,854 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 3,673,920 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 8.8 days. Approximately 6.8% of the company's shares are sold short.

Some companies that are related to FirstEnergy include Enel (ENLAY), Southern (SO), Dominion Energy (D), American Electric Power (AEP), CLP Group (CLPHY), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), Korea Electric Power (KEP), Edison International (EIX), SSE (SSEZY), PPL (PPL), Eversource Energy (ES), DTE Energy (DTE), Avangrid (AGR), Energias de Portugal (EDPFY) and Entergy (ETR).

News stories about FE stock have trended somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. FirstEnergy earned a media sentiment score of 0.01 on Accern's scale. They also assigned headlines about the utilities provider an impact score of 44.49 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

FirstEnergy's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (12.00%), Zimmer Partners LP (6.32%), LSV Asset Management (3.90%), Northern Trust Corp (1.16%), Franklin Resources Inc. (1.04%) and Epoch Investment Partners Inc. (0.94%). Company insiders that own FirstEnergy stock include Charles D Lasky, Donald R Schneider, Donald T Misheff and Gurminder Singh Sangha. View Institutional Ownership Trends for FirstEnergy.

FE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Brookfield Asset Management Inc., American Century Companies Inc., Old Mutual Global Investors UK Ltd., Allianz Asset Management GmbH, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec, Thompson Siegel & Walmsley LLC and Franklin Resources Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for FirstEnergy.

FE stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Zimmer Partners LP, BlackRock Inc., Epoch Investment Partners Inc., LSV Asset Management, Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, Royal Bank of Canada, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. and Neuberger Berman Group LLC. Company insiders that have bought FirstEnergy stock in the last two years include Donald T Misheff and Gurminder Singh Sangha. View Insider Buying and Selling for FirstEnergy.

Shares of FE 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 FE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $33.42.

FirstEnergy has a market capitalization of $15.82 billion and generates $14.02 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $-1,724,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $3.07 on an earnings per share basis. FirstEnergy employs 15,617 workers across the globe.

FirstEnergy's mailing address is 76 SOUTH MAIN ST, AKRON OH, 44308. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 800-736-3402 or via email at [email protected]