Northwest Natural Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:NWN)

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. Shareholders of record on Thursday, October 31st will be paid a dividend of $0.477 per share on Friday, November 15th. This represents a $1.91 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.73%. 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) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, August, 6th. The utilities provider reported $0.07 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.09) by $0.16. The utilities provider had revenue of $123.44 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $125.08 million. Northwest Natural had a return on equity of 9.80% and a net margin of 9.41%. Northwest Natural's revenue was down .9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned ($0.03) earnings per share. View Northwest Natural's Earnings History.

Northwest Natural is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 5th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Northwest Natural.

Northwest Natural will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, November 5th 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, August, 6th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.25 to $2.45 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $2.38.

4 brokerages have issued 12-month price targets for Northwest Natural's stock. Their forecasts range from $49.00 to $79.00. On average, they anticipate Northwest Natural's share price to reach $66.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.7%. View Analyst Price Targets for Northwest Natural.

4 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 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Northwest Natural.

Press coverage about NWN stock has been trending somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Northwest Natural earned a media sentiment score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Northwest Natural.

Northwest Natural saw a increase in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 1,180,000 shares, an increase of 8.3% from the August 30th total of 1,090,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 123,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 9.5 days. Approximately 3.9% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Northwest Natural's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Northwest Natural include ENAGAS S A/ADR (ENGGY), Ultrapar Participacoes (UGP), ONE Gas (OGS), Spire (SR), New Jersey Resources (NJR), National Fuel Gas (NFG), New Fortress Energy (NFE), South Jersey Industries (SJI) and Just Energy Group (JE).

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

Northwest Natural's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Camden National Bank (0.43%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.42%), Robecosam AG (0.39%), Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.30%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.08%) and Whittier Trust Co. (0.01%). 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 Hennessy Advisors Inc., Confluence Investment Management LLC and Camden National Bank. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Robecosam AG, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Whittier Trust Co.. 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 $69.97.

Northwest Natural has a market capitalization of $2.13 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]