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 announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, January 9th. Stockholders of record on Friday, January 31st will be given a dividend of $0.477 per share on Friday, February 14th. This represents a $1.91 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.59%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, January 30th. View Northwest Natural's Dividend History.

Northwest Natural Holding Co (NYSE:NWN) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, November, 5th. The utilities provider reported ($0.63) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.53) by $0.10. The utilities provider earned $90.30 million during 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%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 1.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned ($0.41) EPS. View Northwest Natural's Earnings History.

Northwest Natural is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, March 2nd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Northwest Natural.

Northwest Natural will be holding an earnings conference call on Monday, March 2nd at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

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

5 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Northwest Natural's stock. Their forecasts range from $66.00 to $79.00. On average, they anticipate Northwest Natural's share price to reach $70.80 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.8%. View Analyst Price Targets for Northwest Natural.

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

News headlines about NWN stock have trended extremely negative on Monday, according to InfoTrie. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Northwest Natural earned a news impact score of -5.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Northwest Natural.

Northwest Natural saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,730,000 shares, an increase of 6.8% from the December 15th total of 1,620,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 153,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 11.2 days. Currently, 5.8% of the shares of the company 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), New Jersey Resources (NJR), National Fuel Gas (NFG), 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), Consolidated Edison (ED), Exxon Mobil (XOM), AbbVie (ABBV), Enbridge (ENB), Pfizer (PFE), Southern (SO) and AT&T (T).

Northwest Natural's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.40%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.13%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.08%), Ingalls & Snyder LLC (0.05%), 6 Meridian (0.04%) and Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.03%). 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 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 Hennessy Advisors Inc., Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Ingalls & Snyder LLC, Louisiana State Employees Retirement System, IFP Advisors Inc and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. 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, Mardilyn Saathoff and Tod R Hamachek. View Insider Buying and Selling for Northwest Natural.

NWN stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Alpine Global Management LLC and 6 Meridian. 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 $73.63.

Northwest Natural has a market capitalization of $2.24 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]