Interpublic Group of Companies - IPG Stock Forecast, Price & News

12 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Interpublic Group of Companies in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" IPG shares.
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12 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Interpublic Group of Companies' shares. Their IPG share price forecasts range from $32.00 to $41.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $35.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 10.6% from the stock's current price.
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Interpublic Group of Companies' stock was trading at $37.45 at the beginning of 2022. Since then, IPG shares have decreased by 14.3% and is now trading at $32.10.
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Interpublic Group of Companies saw a decrease in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 9,460,000 shares, a decrease of 9.9% from the October 31st total of 10,500,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,410,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.8 days. Approximately 2.5% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 9th 2023.
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The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (NYSE:IPG) released its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 20th. The business services provider reported $0.63 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.49 by $0.14. The business services provider had revenue of $2.26 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.17 billion. Interpublic Group of Companies had a net margin of 9.18% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 28.78%. The company's revenue was up 15.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.53 earnings per share.
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Interpublic Group of Companies declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, October 31st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.29 per share on Thursday, December 15th. This represents a $1.16 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.61%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 30th.
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Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE:IPG) pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.55%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 10 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 46.03%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, IPG will have a dividend payout ratio of 44.44% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Interpublic Group of Companies declared that its board has authorized a share repurchase program on Thursday, February 10th 2022, which authorizes the company to buyback $400,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 2.8% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

1 employees have rated Interpublic Group of Companies Chief Executive Officer Philippe Krakowsky on Glassdoor.com. Philippe Krakowsky has an approval rating of -100% among the company's employees. This puts Philippe Krakowsky in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Interpublic Group of Companies trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "IPG."

Interpublic Group of Companies' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (12.67%), BlackRock Inc. (10.40%), State Street Corp (5.44%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (3.37%), First Trust Advisors LP (1.81%) and Beutel Goodman & Co Ltd. (1.77%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew Bonzani, Christopher F Carroll, Dawn E Hudson, Ellen Tobi Johnson, Jocelyn Carter-Miller, Mary Guilfoile and Michael Isor Roth.
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Shares of IPG stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of IPG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $32.10.

Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE:IPG) has a market capitalization of $12.47 billion and generates $10.24 billion in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $952.80 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.52 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 55,600 workers across the globe.

Interpublic Group of Companies' mailing address is 909 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK NY, 10022. The official website for the company is www.interpublic.com. The business services provider can be reached via phone at (212) 704-1200, via email at ir@interpublic.com, or via fax at 212-704-1201.