NYSE:NWN - Northwest Natural Stock Price, Forecast & News

Northwest Natural trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "NWN."

Northwest Natural declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 3rd. Investors of record on Thursday, October 31st will be given a dividend of $0.477 per share on Friday, November 15th. This represents a $1.91 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.80%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, October 30th. This is a boost from Northwest Natural's previous quarterly dividend of $0.48. View Northwest Natural's Dividend History.

Northwest Natural Holding Co (NYSE:NWN) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November, 5th. The utilities provider reported ($0.63) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.53) by $0.10. The utilities provider had revenue of $90.30 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $98.07 million. Northwest Natural had a return on equity of 8.58% and a net margin of 8.38%. Northwest Natural's quarterly revenue was down 1.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned ($0.41) earnings per share. View Northwest Natural's Earnings History.

Northwest Natural is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, March 6th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Northwest Natural.

Northwest Natural updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Tuesday, November, 5th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.25-2.45 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.39.

6 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Northwest Natural's shares. Their forecasts range from $49.00 to $79.00. On average, they anticipate Northwest Natural's stock price to reach $67.33 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.3%. View Analyst Price Targets for Northwest Natural.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Northwest Natural in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Northwest Natural.

Press coverage about NWN stock has trended extremely negative on Friday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Northwest Natural earned a news sentiment score of -4.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Northwest Natural.

Northwest Natural saw a increase in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totalling 1,460,000 shares, an increase of 8.1% from the October 31st total of 1,350,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 119,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 12.3 days. Approximately 4.9% of the company's stock are short sold. View Northwest Natural's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Northwest Natural include ONEOK (OKE), Atmos Energy (ATO), UGI (UGI), Southwest Gas (SWX), National Fuel Gas (NFG), New Jersey Resources (NJR), South Jersey Industries (SJI) and Chesapeake Utilities (CPK).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Northwest Natural investors own include Cisco Systems (CSCO), Ford Motor (F), General Electric (GE), iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV), Intel (INTC), Consolidated Edison (ED), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Mcdonald's (MCD), Nike (NKE) and Procter & Gamble (PG).

Northwest Natural's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Parnassus Investments CA (3.04%), State Street Corp (2.94%), First Trust Advisors LP (1.97%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.62%), Camden National Bank (0.43%) and Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.42%). Company insiders that own Northwest Natural stock include C Scott Gibson, David A Weber, David Hugo Anderson, Jon G Huddleston, Justin Palfreyman, Kimberly A Heiting, Lea Anne Doolittle, Lori L Russell, Malia H Wasson, Mardilyn Saathoff, Mark S Dodson and Tod R Hamachek. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Northwest Natural.

NWN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Man Group plc, Millennium Management LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., SG Americas Securities LLC, Hennessy Advisors Inc., Strs Ohio, Municipal Employees Retirement System of Michigan and Confluence Investment Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Northwest Natural company stock in the last year include C Scott Gibson, David Hugo Anderson, Justin Palfreyman, Kimberly A Heiting, Lori L Russell and Tod R Hamachek. View Insider Buying and Selling for Northwest Natural.

NWN stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Parnassus Investments CA, First Trust Advisors LP, Robecosam AG, California Public Employees Retirement System, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Chicago Equity Partners LLC, Voloridge Investment Management LLC and Catalyst Capital Advisors LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Northwest Natural.

Shares of NWN 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 NWN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $68.23.

Northwest Natural has a market capitalization of $2.08 billion and generates $706.14 million in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $64.57 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.33 on an earnings per share basis. Northwest Natural employs 1,198 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Northwest Natural.

The official website for Northwest Natural is http://www.nwnatural.com/.

Northwest Natural's mailing address is ONE PACIFIC SQUARE 220 NW SECOND AVE, PORTLAND OR, 97209. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 503-226-4211 or via email at [email protected]