Macy's (M) Stock Forecast, Price & News

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Macy's in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 4 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" M shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in M, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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12 brokers have issued 12 month target prices for Macy's' stock. Their M share price forecasts range from $12.00 to $30.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $20.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 27.5% from the stock's current price.
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Macy's' stock was trading at $20.65 at the start of the year. Since then, M stock has decreased by 21.5% and is now trading at $16.21.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 22nd 2023.
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Macy's, Inc. (NYSE:M) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, June, 1st. The company reported $0.56 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.45 by $0.11. The company earned $4.98 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $5.01 billion. Macy's had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 28.86% and a net margin of 4.31%. The business's revenue was down 6.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $1.08 earnings per share.

Macy's declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 31st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, June 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.165 per share on Monday, July 3rd. This represents a $0.66 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.07%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, June 14th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Macy's (NYSE:M) stock in their portfolio include WisdomTree U.S. Value Fund (WTV), Invesco S&P MidCap Value with Momentum ETF (XMVM), Invesco S&P MidCap 400 Pure Value ETF (RFV), First Trust Consumer Discretionary AlphaDEX Fund (FXD), SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT), Invesco S&P MidCap 400 Revenue ETF (RWK), Invesco S&P MidCap Quality ETF (XMHQ) and Direxion Daily Retail Bull 3X Shares (RETL).

Macy's (NYSE:M) pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.41%. M has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. 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 17.51%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, M will have a dividend payout ratio of 19.24% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Macy's announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback plan on Tuesday, February 22nd 2022, which allows the company to repurchase $2,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to purchase up to 28.9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are usually an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Macy's updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Sunday, June, 4th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.70-$3.20 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $3.69. The company issued revenue guidance of $22.80 billion-$23.20 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $24.00 billion.

2,528 employees have rated Macy's Chief Executive Officer Jeff Gennette on Glassdoor.com. Jeff Gennette has an approval rating of 62% among the company's employees. This puts Jeff Gennette in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Macy's investors own include AT&T (T), General Electric (GE), Intel (INTC), NVIDIA (NVDA), Micron Technology (MU), Netflix (NFLX), Bank of America (BAC), Ford Motor (F), Walt Disney (DIS) and Tesla (TSLA).

Macy's trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "M."

Macy's' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (9.40%), Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership (3.87%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (3.83%), State Street Corp (3.74%), Newport Trust Co (2.86%) and Appaloosa LP (2.20%). Insiders that own company stock include Adrian V Mitchell, Antony Spring, C Elisa D Garcia, Danielle L Kirgan, Jeffrey Gennette, John T Harper, Paul C Varga and Paul Griscom.
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Shares of M 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 M stock can currently be purchased for approximately $16.21.

Macy's (NYSE:M) has a market capitalization of $4.41 billion and generates $24.44 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $1.18 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.77 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 94,570 workers across the globe.

Macy's' mailing address is 151 WEST 34TH STREET, NEW YORK NY, 10001. The official website for the company is www.macysinc.com. The company can be reached via phone at (212) 494-1621, via email at investors@macys.com, or via fax at 212-494-1838.