NYSE:POR - Portland General Electric Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Portland General Electric trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "POR."

Portland General Electric declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 24th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, December 26th will be paid a dividend of $0.3625 per share on Tuesday, January 15th. This represents a $1.45 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.22%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, December 24th. View Portland General Electric's Dividend History.

Portland General Electric (NYSE:POR) issued its quarterly earnings data on Friday, October, 26th. The utilities provider reported $0.59 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.50 by $0.09. The utilities provider earned $525 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $527.63 million. Portland General Electric had a return on equity of 9.05% and a net margin of 10.34%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 1.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.44 earnings per share. View Portland General Electric's Earnings History.

Portland General Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, February 15th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Portland General Electric.

Portland General Electric updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Friday, October, 26th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.25-2.40 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.33. Portland General Electric also updated its FY 2018 guidance to $2.25-2.40 EPS.

8 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Portland General Electric's shares. Their predictions range from $39.00 to $48.00. On average, they expect Portland General Electric's stock price to reach $42.9375 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.7%. View Analyst Price Targets for Portland General Electric.

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

Press coverage about POR stock has trended negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative 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 nearest to five being the most favorable. Portland General Electric earned a media sentiment score of -2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is very unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

Some companies that are related to Portland General Electric include Entergy (ETR), SSE PLC/S (SSEZY), Avangrid (AGR), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), Fortis (FTS), EDP-Energias de Portugal, S.A (EDPFY), RED ELECTRICA C/ADR (RDEIY), Vistra Energy (VST), NRG Energy (NRG), Enel Americas (ENIA), CENTRAIS ELETRI/S (EBR), CHINA RESOURES/ADR (CRPJY), Huaneng Power International (HNP), CENTRICA PLC/S (CPYYY) and Pinnacle West Capital (PNW).

Portland General Electric's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Scout Investments Inc. (0.45%), Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC (0.37%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.03%) and Fox Run Management L.L.C. (0.01%). Company insiders that own Portland General Electric stock include Bradley Young Jenkins, Campbell A Henderson, David Geophry Tafel, Maria M Pope, William David Robertson and William O Nicholson. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Portland General Electric.

POR stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Scout Investments Inc., Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC, Fox Run Management L.L.C. and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. View Insider Buying and Selling for Portland General Electric.

Shares of POR 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of POR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $45.05.

Portland General Electric has a market capitalization of $4.03 billion and generates $2.01 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $187 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.29 on an earnings per share basis. Portland General Electric employs 2,906 workers across the globe.

The official website for Portland General Electric is http://www.portlandgeneral.com.

Portland General Electric's mailing address is 121 SW SALMON STREET, PORTLAND OR, 97204. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 503-464-8000 or via email at [email protected]