NYSE:NJR - New Jersey Resources Stock Price, Price Target & More

New Jersey Resources trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "NJR."

New Jersey Resources announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 8th. Shareholders of record on Friday, June 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.2725 per share on Monday, July 2nd. This represents a $1.09 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.46%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, June 14th. View New Jersey Resources' Dividend History.

Shares of New Jersey Resources split before market open on Wednesday, March 4th 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Wednesday, January 21st 2015. The newly created shares were distributed to shareholders after the closing bell on Tuesday, March 3rd 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of New Jersey Resources stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

New Jersey Resources Corp (NYSE:NJR) posted its quarterly earnings data on Friday, May, 4th. The utilities provider reported $1.62 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.97 by $0.65. The utilities provider earned $1.02 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $749.71 million. New Jersey Resources had a return on equity of 21.16% and a net margin of 9.06%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 99.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $1.21 earnings per share. View New Jersey Resources' Earnings History.

New Jersey Resources is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August, 1st 2018. View Earnings Estimates for New Jersey Resources.

New Jersey Resources updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Friday, May, 4th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.55-2.65 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.60.

4 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for New Jersey Resources' shares. Their forecasts range from $38.00 to $49.00. On average, they expect New Jersey Resources' share price to reach $43.00 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for New Jersey Resources.

Some companies that are related to New Jersey Resources include Atmos Energy (ATO), Ultrapar Participacoes (UGP), WGL (WGL), National Fuel Gas (NFG), ONE Gas (OGS), Spire (SR), South Jersey Industries (SJI), Northwest Natural Gas (NWN) and Just Energy Group (JE).

Press coverage about NJR stock has been trending somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. New Jersey Resources earned a media sentiment score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also assigned headlines about the utilities provider an impact score of 45.62 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days.

New Jersey Resources' stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (13.04%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.81%), Northern Trust Corp (1.48%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (1.14%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (0.71%) and Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. (0.71%). Company insiders that own New Jersey Resources stock include Amanda Mullan, Jane M Kenny, Lawrence R Codey, M William Howard, Jr and Patrick J Migliaccio. View Institutional Ownership Trends for New Jersey Resources.

NJR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Millennium Management LLC, BlackRock Inc., State of Wisconsin Investment Board, Hennessy Advisors Inc., BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA, JPMorgan Chase & Co., SG Americas Securities LLC and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA. Company insiders that have sold New Jersey Resources company stock in the last year include Amanda Mullan, Lawrence R Codey and Patrick J Migliaccio. View Insider Buying and Selling for New Jersey Resources.

NJR stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Summit Trail Advisors LLC, Prudential Financial Inc., Wells Fargo & Company MN, Federated Investors Inc. PA, Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc., Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Trexquant Investment LP and Forsta AP Fonden. View Insider Buying and Selling for New Jersey Resources.

Shares of NJR 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 NJR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $44.35.

New Jersey Resources has a market capitalization of $3.86 billion and generates $2.27 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $132.06 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.73 on an earnings per share basis. New Jersey Resources employs 1,052 workers across the globe.

New Jersey Resources' mailing address is 1415 Wyckoff Road, WALL TOWNSHIP NJ, 07719. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 732-938-1480 or via email at [email protected]