Motorola Solutions - MSI Stock Forecast, Price & News

5 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Motorola Solutions in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" MSI shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in MSI, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for Motorola Solutions' shares. Their MSI share price forecasts range from $260.00 to $311.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $286.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 11.9% from the stock's current price.
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Motorola Solutions' stock was trading at $257.71 at the start of the year. Since then, MSI stock has decreased by 0.9% and is now trading at $255.50.
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Motorola Solutions saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,350,000 shares, an increase of 16.4% from the November 30th total of 1,160,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 737,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.8 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 9th 2023.
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Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:MSI) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 3rd. The communications equipment provider reported $2.79 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $2.64 by $0.15. The communications equipment provider earned $2.37 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.32 billion. Motorola Solutions had a net margin of 13.47% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 533.01%. The firm's revenue was up 12.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $2.19 earnings per share.
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Motorola Solutions declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 17th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.88 per share on Friday, January 13th. This represents a $3.52 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.38%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 14th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.79.
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Motorola Solutions (NYSE:MSI) pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.37%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 11 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 51.76%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MSI will have a dividend payout ratio of 34.89% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Motorola Solutions updated its fourth quarter 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 10th. The company provided EPS guidance of $3.40-$3.45 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.43. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.53 billion-$2.53 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.50 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 trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "MSI."

Motorola Solutions' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Kovitz Investment Group Partners LLC (0.26%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.24%), Ceredex Value Advisors LLC (0.20%), Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc. (0.10%), Strs Ohio (0.06%) and Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.05%). Insiders that own company stock include Cynthia Yazdi, Daniel G Pekofske, Gregory Q Brown, Gregory Q Brown, John P Molloy, John P Molloy, Katherine A Maher, Mark S Hacker and Rajan Naik.
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One share of MSI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $255.50.

Motorola Solutions (NYSE:MSI) has a market capitalization of $42.72 billion and generates $8.17 billion in revenue each year. The communications equipment provider earns $1.25 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.80 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 18,700 workers across the globe.

Motorola Solutions' mailing address is 500 W. MONROE STREET, CHICAGO IL, 60661. The official website for the company is www.motorolasolutions.com. The communications equipment provider can be reached via phone at (847) 576-5000, via email at investors@motorolasolutions.com, or via fax at 847-576-5372.