NorthWestern Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:NWE)

NorthWestern trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "NWE."

NorthWestern announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, July 23rd. Investors of record on Friday, September 13th will be paid a dividend of $0.575 per share on Monday, September 30th. This represents a $2.30 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.07%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 12th. View NorthWestern's Dividend History.

NorthWestern Corp (NYSE:NWE) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, April, 23rd. The utilities provider reported $1.23 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.18 by $0.05. The utilities provider had revenue of $384.22 million for the quarter. NorthWestern had a return on equity of 9.86% and a net margin of 17.30%. View NorthWestern's Earnings History.

NorthWestern is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 29th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for NorthWestern.

NorthWestern will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, October 29th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

5 equities research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for NorthWestern's stock. Their predictions range from $55.00 to $70.00. On average, they expect NorthWestern's stock price to reach $62.80 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 16.2%. View Analyst Price Targets for NorthWestern.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for NorthWestern in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 1 hold rating and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for NorthWestern.

Media stories about NWE stock have been trending extremely negative on Tuesday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. NorthWestern earned a media sentiment score of -4.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for NorthWestern.

NorthWestern saw a decrease in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 1,350,000 shares, a decrease of 11.8% from the August 30th total of 1,530,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 326,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.1 days. Approximately 2.7% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View NorthWestern's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to NorthWestern include Dominion Energy (D), Sempra Energy (SRE), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), DTE Energy (DTE), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), Alliant Energy (LNT), NiSource (NI), Mdu Resources Group (MDU), Black Hills (BKH), PG&E (PCG) and Avista (AVA).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other NorthWestern investors own include Intel (INTC), Micron Technology (MU), Deere & Company (DE), Celgene (CELG), Cisco Systems (CSCO), CSX (CSX), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Texas Instruments (TXN), Caterpillar (CAT) and Emerson Electric (EMR).

NorthWestern's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.54%), Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co. (0.51%), First PREMIER Bank (0.26%), Peregrine Capital Management LLC (0.14%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.13%) and Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.08%). Company insiders that own NorthWestern stock include Bobbi L Schroeppel, Curtis T Pohl, H Grahame Heather, Jan Robert Horsfall, Linda G Sullivan, Michael R Cashell, Patrick R Corcoran and Robert C Rowe. View Institutional Ownership Trends for NorthWestern.

NWE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Peregrine Capital Management LLC, Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, Hennessy Advisors Inc., First PREMIER Bank, Pacer Advisors Inc. and North Star Investment Management Corp.. Company insiders that have sold NorthWestern company stock in the last year include Bobbi L Schroeppel, Curtis T Pohl, H Grahame Heather, Jan Robert Horsfall, Michael R Cashell and Robert C Rowe. View Insider Buying and Selling for NorthWestern.

NWE stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Meeder Asset Management Inc., Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Jaffetilchin Investment Partners LLC, Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co., Miller Howard Investments Inc. NY and Brinker Capital Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for NorthWestern.

Shares of NWE 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of NWE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $74.90.

NorthWestern has a market capitalization of $3.78 billion and generates $1.19 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $196.96 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.39 on an earnings per share basis. NorthWestern employs 1,528 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About NorthWestern.

The official website for NorthWestern is http://www.northwesternenergy.com/.

NorthWestern's mailing address is 3010 WEST 69TH STREET, SIOUX FALLS SD, 57108. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 605-978-2900 or via email at [email protected]