NYSE:JNJ - Johnson & Johnson Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Johnson & Johnson trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "JNJ."

Johnson & Johnson announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 2nd. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, February 26th will be given a dividend of $0.90 per share on Tuesday, March 12th. This represents a $3.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.80%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, February 25th. View Johnson & Johnson's Dividend History.

Johnson & Johnson declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback plan on Monday, December 17th 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $5,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are usually an indication that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, January, 22nd. The company reported $1.97 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.95 by $0.02. The company earned $20.39 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $20.27 billion. Johnson & Johnson had a return on equity of 34.62% and a net margin of 1.89%. The business's revenue was up 1.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $1.74 EPS. View Johnson & Johnson's Earnings History.

Johnson & Johnson is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 22nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Johnson & Johnson.

Johnson & Johnson issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Tuesday, January, 22nd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $8.50-8.65 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $8.60. The company issued revenue guidance of $80.4-81.2 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $82.74 billion.Johnson & Johnson also updated its FY 2019 guidance to $8.50-8.65 EPS.

13 brokerages have issued 1-year price objectives for Johnson & Johnson's stock. Their forecasts range from $110.00 to $160.00. On average, they anticipate Johnson & Johnson's share price to reach $139.5455 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 8.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Johnson & Johnson.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Johnson & Johnson in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Johnson & Johnson.

Press coverage about JNJ stock has trended very positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Johnson & Johnson earned a media sentiment score of 3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the company a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

Johnson & Johnson saw a decline in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 15,719,662 shares, a decline of 19.9% from the December 14th total of 19,633,883 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 15,979,892 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.0 days. Currently, 0.6% of the company's shares are sold short. View Johnson & Johnson's Current Options Chain.

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Johnson & Johnson's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include DNB Asset Management AS (0.06%), Hexavest Inc. (0.06%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.05%), Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.04%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.04%) and BTIM Corp. (0.03%). Company insiders that own Johnson & Johnson stock include Alex Gorsky, Charles Prince, Dominic J Caruso, Joaquin Duato, Michael E Sneed, Paulus Stoffels, Peter Fasolo and Ronald A Kapusta. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Johnson & Johnson.

JNJ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Gulf International Bank UK Ltd, Atalanta Sosnoff Capital LLC, Sit Investment Associates Inc., USS Investment Management Ltd, Highland Capital Management LLC, Hexavest Inc., Moreno Evelyn V and Capital Investment Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have sold Johnson & Johnson company stock in the last year include Alex Gorsky, Joaquin Duato, Michael E Sneed, Paulus Stoffels, Peter Fasolo and Ronald A Kapusta. View Insider Buying and Selling for Johnson & Johnson.

JNJ stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including KAMES CAPITAL plc, DNB Asset Management AS, Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc., Weather Gauge Advisory LLC, QCI Asset Management Inc. NY, Centre Asset Management LLC, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and Nachman Norwood & Parrott Inc. View Insider Buying and Selling for Johnson & Johnson.

Shares of JNJ 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 JNJ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $128.80.

Johnson & Johnson has a market capitalization of $345.56 billion and generates $76.45 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $1.30 billion in net income (profit) each year or $7.30 on an earnings per share basis. Johnson & Johnson employs 134,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Johnson & Johnson is http://www.jnj.com.

Johnson & Johnson's mailing address is ONE JOHNSON & JOHNSON PLZ, NEW BRUNSWICK NJ, 08933. The company can be reached via phone at 732-524-0400.