Ingersoll-Rand Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:IR)

Ingersoll-Rand trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "IR."

Ingersoll-Rand declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, June 4th. Investors of record on Friday, September 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.53 per share on Monday, September 30th. This represents a $2.12 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.72%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 5th. View Ingersoll-Rand's Dividend History.

Ingersoll-Rand declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock buyback program on Wednesday, October 3rd 2018, which authorizes the company to repurchase $1,500,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to repurchase up to 6% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are typically a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Ingersoll-Rand PLC (NYSE:IR) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, July, 30th. The industrial products company reported $2.09 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.06 by $0.03. The industrial products company had revenue of $4.53 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.57 billion. Ingersoll-Rand had a net margin of 8.89% and a return on equity of 20.97%. Ingersoll-Rand's revenue for the quarter was up 3.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $1.85 EPS. View Ingersoll-Rand's Earnings History.

Ingersoll-Rand is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 23rd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Ingersoll-Rand.

Ingersoll-Rand issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Tuesday, July, 30th. The company provided EPS guidance of $6.35-6.40 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $6.39.

14 brokers have issued 1 year price objectives for Ingersoll-Rand's stock. Their predictions range from $106.00 to $140.00. On average, they anticipate Ingersoll-Rand's stock price to reach $129.0354 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 4.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Ingersoll-Rand.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ingersoll-Rand in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 11 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Ingersoll-Rand.

Media coverage about IR stock has been trending somewhat negative on Sunday, InfoTrie reports. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Ingersoll-Rand earned a media sentiment score of -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Ingersoll-Rand.

Ingersoll-Rand saw a drop in short interest in August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,983,300 shares, a drop of 19.4% from the July 31st total of 2,461,300 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,330,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.5 days. Currently, 0.8% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Ingersoll-Rand's Current Options Chain.

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Ingersoll-Rand's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (7.38%), BlackRock Inc. (6.97%), BlackRock Inc. (6.97%), Nuveen Asset Management LLC (2.38%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1.91%) and Invesco Ltd. (1.87%). Company insiders that own Ingersoll-Rand stock include Christopher J Kuehn, David S Regnery, Evan M Turtz, Jared L Cohon, Keith A Sultana, Marcia J Avedon, Michael W Lamach, Paul A Camuti and Susan K Carter. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Ingersoll-Rand.

IR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., BlackRock Inc., Invesco Ltd., Quest Capital Management Inc. ADV, Generation Investment Management LLP, First Trust Advisors LP, Holocene Advisors LP and Beutel Goodman & Co Ltd.. Company insiders that have sold Ingersoll-Rand company stock in the last year include Christopher J Kuehn, David S Regnery, Evan M Turtz, Jared L Cohon, Keith A Sultana, Marcia J Avedon, Michael W Lamach, Paul A Camuti and Susan K Carter. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ingersoll-Rand.

IR stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nuveen Asset Management LLC, UBS Asset Management Americas Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Suvretta Capital Management LLC, AQR Capital Management LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Balyasny Asset Management LLC and Bank of America Corp DE. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ingersoll-Rand.

Shares of IR 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 IR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $123.15.

Ingersoll-Rand has a market capitalization of $29.75 billion and generates $15.67 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $1.34 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.61 on an earnings per share basis. Ingersoll-Rand employs 49,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Ingersoll-Rand.

The official website for Ingersoll-Rand is http://www.company.ingersollrand.com/.

Ingersoll-Rand's mailing address is 170/175 LAKEVIEW DRIVE AIRSIDE BUSINESS PARK SWORDS, DUBLIN L2, 28036. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 353-01-870-7400 or via email at [email protected]