Gray Television - GTN Stock Forecast, Price & News

4 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Gray Television in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" GTN shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in GTN, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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4 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Gray Television's shares. Their GTN share price forecasts range from $7.00 to $19.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $14.20 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 63.0% from the stock's current price.
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Gray Television's stock was trading at $11.19 at the beginning of the year. Since then, GTN shares have decreased by 22.2% and is now trading at $8.71.
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Gray Television saw a increase in short interest during the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,060,000 shares, an increase of 17.7% from the February 28th total of 2,600,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 752,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.1 days. Approximately 3.8% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, May 5th 2023.
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Gray Television, Inc. (NYSE:GTN) issued its quarterly earnings data on Friday, February, 24th. The company reported $1.88 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.73 by $0.15. The company earned $1.07 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.04 billion. Gray Television had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 23.67% and a net margin of 12.38%. Gray Television's quarterly revenue was up 48.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.17 EPS.

Gray Television announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 24th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, March 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.08 per share on Friday, March 31st. This represents a $0.32 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.67%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, March 14th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Gray Television (NYSE:GTN) stock in their portfolio include Invesco Dynamic Media ETF (PBS), First Trust Small Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund (FYT), WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Quality Dividend Growth Fund (DGRS), First Trust Small Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund (FYX), WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Fund (EES), Small Cap US Equity Select ETF (RNSC), Vanguard Communication Services ETF (VOX).Fidelity MSCI Communication Services Index ETF (FCOM).

Gray Television (NYSE:GTN) pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.79%. The dividend payout ratio is 7.37%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, GTN will have a dividend payout ratio of 7.39% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Gray Television issued an update on its first quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Friday, February, 24th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $777.00 million-$796.00 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $799.04 million.

63 employees have rated Gray Television Chief Executive Officer Hilton H. Howell, Jr. on Glassdoor.com. Hilton H. Howell, Jr. has an approval rating of 57% among the company's employees. This puts Hilton H. Howell, Jr. in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Gray Television trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "GTN."

Gray Television's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Clearbridge Investments LLC (3.40%), Millennium Management LLC (2.44%), UBS Group AG (2.25%), New York State Common Retirement Fund (2.03%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.62%) and Boston Partners (1.53%). Insiders that own company stock include D Patrick Laplatney, Harriett J Robinson, Hilton H Howell Jr, Hilton H Howell, Jr, Jackson S Iv Cowart, James C Ryan, Kevin Paul Latek, Richard Lee Boger, Robert Lawrence Smith and Robin Robinson Howell.
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One share of GTN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $8.71.

Gray Television (NYSE:GTN) has a market capitalization of $808.55 million and generates $3.68 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $455 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.34 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 9,394 workers across the globe.

Gray Television's mailing address is 4370 PEACHTREE ROAD NE, ATLANTA GA, 30319. The official website for the company is www.gray.tv. The company can be reached via phone at (404) 266-8333 or via fax at 404-261-9607.