Juniper Networks (JNPR) Stock Price, News & Analysis

13 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Juniper Networks in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" JNPR shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in JNPR, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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13 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Juniper Networks' stock. Their JNPR share price targets range from $27.00 to $40.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $33.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 13.8% from the stock's current price.
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Juniper Networks' stock was trading at $31.96 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, JNPR stock has decreased by 9.3% and is now trading at $28.99.
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Juniper Networks saw a increase in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 11,010,000 shares, an increase of 7.4% from the October 31st total of 10,250,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,180,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.5 days. Currently, 3.5% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 30th 2024.
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Juniper Networks, Inc. (NYSE:JNPR) posted its earnings results on Thursday, October, 26th. The network equipment provider reported $0.41 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.39 by $0.02. The network equipment provider earned $1.40 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.39 billion. Juniper Networks had a net margin of 6.48% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 12.52%.

Juniper Networks announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 26th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 1st will be given a dividend of $0.22 per share on Friday, December 22nd. This represents a $0.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.04%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 30th.
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Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.05%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 2 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 78.57%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, JNPR will have a dividend payout ratio of 58.28% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) stock in their portfolio include iShares North American Tech-Multimedia Networking ETF (IGN), iShares Cybersecurity and Tech ETF (IHAK), ETFMG Prime Cyber Security ETF (HACK), SPDR S&P Telecom ETF (XTL), iShares U.S. Telecommunications ETF (IYZ), Emerge EMPWR Sustainable Dividend Equity ETF (EMCA), First Trust Nasdaq Cybersecurity ETF (CIBR) and Invesco Next Gen Connectivity ETF (PXQ).

Juniper Networks issued an update on its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Thursday, October, 26th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $0.58-0.68 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $0.62. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.35-1.45 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.40 billion.

976 employees have rated Juniper Networks Chief Executive Officer Rami Rahim on Glassdoor.com. Rami Rahim has an approval rating of 88% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Juniper Networks investors own include Intel (INTC), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Micron Technology (MU), NVIDIA (NVDA), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Alibaba Group (BABA), Salesforce (CRM), Walt Disney (DIS) and Bank of America (BAC).

Juniper Networks' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Legal & General Group Plc (1.88%), Invesco Ltd. (1.79%), American Century Companies Inc. (1.27%), Morgan Stanley (1.13%), Northern Trust Corp (1.07%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.97%). Insiders that own company stock include Anne Delsanto, Brian Martin, James A Dolce Jr, Kenneth Bradley Miller, Kevin A Denuccio, Manoj Leelanivas, Marcus Jewell, Rami Rahim, Robert Mobassaly, Scott Kriens, Thomas A Austin and William Stensrud.
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