Motorola Solutions Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:MSI)

7 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Motorola Solutions in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" MSI shares.
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7 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Motorola Solutions' shares. Their MSI share price targets range from $270.00 to $335.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $312.57 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.4%.
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Motorola Solutions' stock was trading at $257.71 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, MSI stock has increased by 25.6% and is now trading at $323.66.
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Motorola Solutions saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,240,000 shares, an increase of 37.8% from the October 31st total of 899,900 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 630,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.0 days. Currently, 0.8% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 8th 2024.
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Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:MSI) issued its earnings results on Thursday, November, 2nd. The communications equipment provider reported $2.97 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $2.79 by $0.18. The communications equipment provider had revenue of $2.56 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.53 billion. Motorola Solutions had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 668.00% and a net margin of 17.30%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 7.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $2.79 EPS.
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Motorola Solutions declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 16th. Shareholders of record on Friday, December 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.98 per share on Friday, January 12th. This represents a $3.92 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.21%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 14th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.88.
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Motorola Solutions (NYSE:MSI) pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.08%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 12 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 35.59%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MSI will have a dividend payout ratio of 30.42% 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 Motorola Solutions (NYSE:MSI) stock in their portfolio include iShares North American Tech-Multimedia Networking ETF (IGN), Invesco Next Gen Connectivity ETF (PXQ), Natixis Vaughan Nelson Select ETF (VNSE), iShares U.S. Telecommunications ETF (IYZ), Invesco Focused Discovery Growth ETF (IVDG), SPDR S&P Telecom ETF (XTL), Natixis Vaughan Nelson Mid Cap ETF (VNMC) and Nuveen Dividend Growth ETF (NDVG).

Motorola Solutions updated its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 2nd. The company provided EPS guidance of $3.60-3.65 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.58. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.81 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.81 billion.

439 employees have rated Motorola Solutions Chief Executive Officer Gregory Q. Brown on Glassdoor.com. Gregory Q. Brown has an approval rating of 88% among the company's employees.

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Motorola Solutions' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (1.42%), Raymond James & Associates (1.23%), Invesco Ltd. (1.21%), Northern Trust Corp (1.11%), Wellington Management Group LLP (1.10%) and Deutsche Bank AG (1.02%). Insiders that own company stock include Cynthia Yazdi, Daniel G Pekofske, Gregory Q Brown, Gregory Q Brown, Jason J Winkler, John P Molloy, John P Molloy, Katherine A Maher, Kenneth D Denman, Mark S Hacker and Rajan Naik.
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