NYSE:MSI - Motorola Solutions Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Motorola Solutions trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "MSI."

Motorola Solutions declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 15th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 14th will be given a dividend of $0.57 per share on Tuesday, January 15th. This represents a $2.28 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.79%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 13th. This is a positive change from Motorola Solutions's previous quarterly dividend of $0.52. View Motorola Solutions' Dividend History.

Motorola Solutions Inc (NYSE:MSI) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 1st. The communications equipment provider reported $1.94 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.72 by $0.22. The communications equipment provider had revenue of $1.86 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.87 billion. Motorola Solutions had a negative net margin of 0.44% and a negative return on equity of 68.88%. The firm's revenue was up 13.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $1.53 earnings per share. View Motorola Solutions' Earnings History.

Motorola Solutions is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 7th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Motorola Solutions.

Motorola Solutions issued an update on its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 1st. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.50-2.55 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.58. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.22 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.22 billion.Motorola Solutions also updated its FY 2018 guidance to $6.79-6.89 EPS.

14 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Motorola Solutions' stock. Their predictions range from $28.50 to $145.00. On average, they expect Motorola Solutions' stock price to reach $127.0385 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.4%. View Analyst Price Targets for Motorola Solutions.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Motorola Solutions in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Motorola Solutions.

Headlines about MSI stock have trended somewhat positive on Monday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Motorola Solutions earned a news sentiment score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the communications equipment provider a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term.

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Motorola Solutions' stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (11.34%), Vanguard Group Inc. (10.49%), OppenheimerFunds Inc. (2.44%), TIAA CREF Investment Management LLC (1.40%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (1.05%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.89%). Company insiders that own Motorola Solutions stock include Bruce W Brda, Cynthia Yazdi, Daniel G Pekofske, Eduardo F Conrado, Gino A Bonanotte, Gregory Q Brown, John K Wozniak, John P Molloy, Mark S Hacker, Motorola Solutions, Inc and Rajan Naik. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Motorola Solutions.

MSI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Capital Research Global Investors, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, OppenheimerFunds Inc., Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, Victory Capital Management Inc., Unigestion Holding SA and River Road Asset Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Motorola Solutions company stock in the last year include Cynthia Yazdi, Daniel G Pekofske, Gino A Bonanotte, Gregory Q Brown, John K Wozniak, John P Molloy, Mark S Hacker, Motorola Solutions, Inc and Rajan Naik. View Insider Buying and Selling for Motorola Solutions.

MSI stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., TIAA CREF Investment Management LLC, Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Vanguard Group Inc., Nordea Investment Management AB, Teachers Advisors LLC and Columbus Circle Investors. View Insider Buying and Selling for Motorola Solutions.

Shares of MSI 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 MSI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $127.53.

Motorola Solutions has a market capitalization of $20.85 billion and generates $6.38 billion in revenue each year. The communications equipment provider earns $-155,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $5.20 on an earnings per share basis. Motorola Solutions employs 15,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Motorola Solutions is http://www.motorolasolutions.com.

Motorola Solutions' mailing address is 500 W. MONROE ST., CHICAGO IL, 60661. The communications equipment provider can be reached via phone at 847-576-5000 or via email at [email protected]