Corporate Office Properties Trust Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:OFC)

3 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Corporate Office Properties Trust in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" OFC shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in OFC, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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3 Wall Street research analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Corporate Office Properties Trust's shares. Their OFC share price targets range from $28.00 to $31.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $29.00 in the next year.
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Corporate Office Properties Trust (NYSE:OFC) announced its earnings results on Friday, July, 28th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.27 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.59 by $0.32. The real estate investment trust had revenue of $169.20 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $150.38 million. Corporate Office Properties Trust had a net margin of 27.43% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.93%. Corporate Office Properties Trust's revenue for the quarter was down 8.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.59 EPS.

Corporate Office Properties Trust declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 10th. Investors of record on Friday, September 29th will be paid a dividend of $0.285 per share on Monday, October 16th. This represents a $1.14 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of ∞. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 28th.
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Corporate Office Properties Trust (NYSE:OFC) pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.57%. OFC has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 67.46%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, OFC will have a dividend payout ratio of 45.60% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Corporate Office Properties Trust (NYSE:OFC) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P MidCap Low Volatility ETF (XMLV), Cambria Global Real Estate ETF (BLDG), Vident U.S. Diversified Real Estate ETF (PPTY), First Trust Horizon Managed Volatility Small/Mid ETF (HSMV), WisdomTree New Economy Real Estate Fund (WTRE), AGF U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund (BTAL), VictoryShares US Small Mid Cap Value Momentum ETF (USVM) and iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF (ESML).

8 employees have rated Corporate Office Properties Trust Chief Executive Officer Stephen E. Budorick on Glassdoor.com. Stephen E. Budorick has an approval rating of 49% among the company's employees. This puts Stephen E. Budorick in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Corporate Office Properties Trust investors own include Ventas (VTR), AT&T (T), Physicians Realty Trust (DOC), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Iron Mountain (IRM), Kimco Realty (KIM), Realty Income (O), American Tower (AMT), LTC Properties (LTC) and Verizon Communications (VZ).

Corporate Office Properties Trust's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.25%), Raymond James & Associates (0.17%), Foster & Motley Inc. (0.04%), Summit Global Investments (0.04%) and Concourse Financial Group Securities Inc. (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include C Taylor Pickett, David M Jacobstein, Greg J Thor, Lisa G Trimberger, Robert L Denton, Stephen E Budorick, Steven D Kesler and Steven D Kesler.
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