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

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

NorthWestern declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, July 23rd. Stockholders 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 dividend yield of 3.07%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 12th. View NorthWestern's Dividend History.

NorthWestern Corp (NYSE:NWE) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, July, 23rd. The utilities provider reported $0.94 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.63 by $0.31. The utilities provider had revenue of $270.70 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $308.82 million. NorthWestern had a net margin of 17.30% and a return on equity of 9.86%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 3.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.63 EPS. 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 12 month target prices for NorthWestern's stock. Their forecasts range from $55.00 to $70.00. On average, they anticipate NorthWestern's share price to reach $62.80 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 16.1%. 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.

News headlines about NWE stock have trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. NorthWestern earned a news sentiment score of -1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for NorthWestern.

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

Some companies that are related to NorthWestern include Evergy (EVRG), Alliant Energy (LNT), NiSource (NI), United Utilities Group (UUGRY), ALLETE (ALE), PG&E (PCG), Avista (AVA), Innergex Renewable Energy (INGXF), Unitil (UTL), Spark Energy (SPKE), Genie Energy (GNE), EuroSite Power (EUSP) and Endesa (ELE).

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NorthWestern's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional 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 bought 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. and Miller Howard Investments Inc. NY. 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 $74.85.

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]