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

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

Portland General Electric announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 31st. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, September 25th will be paid a dividend of $0.385 per share on Tuesday, October 15th. This represents a $1.54 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.77%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, September 24th. View Portland General Electric's Dividend History.

Portland General Electric (NYSE:POR) issued its quarterly earnings data on Friday, August, 2nd. The utilities provider reported $0.28 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.51 by $0.23. The utilities provider earned $460 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $466.66 million. Portland General Electric had a net margin of 9.61% and a return on equity of 7.93%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 2.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.51 EPS. View Portland General Electric's Earnings History.

Portland General Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, November 1st 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Portland General Electric.

Portland General Electric will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, November 1st at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Portland General Electric updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Friday, August, 2nd. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.35-2.50 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.45.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Portland General Electric's shares. Their predictions range from $43.00 to $59.00. On average, they expect Portland General Electric's share price to reach $53.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.8%. View Analyst Price Targets for Portland General Electric.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Portland General Electric 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 Portland General Electric.

Media headlines about POR stock have been trending somewhat negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Portland General Electric earned a coverage optimism score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Portland General Electric.

Portland General Electric saw a drop in short interest in the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 813,000 shares, a drop of 7.5% from the August 30th total of 878,700 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 582,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.4 days. Currently, 0.9% of the company's shares are sold short. View Portland General Electric's Current Options Chain.

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Portland General Electric's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Scout Investments Inc. (0.69%), Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co. (0.40%), Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC (0.31%), Bowling Portfolio Management LLC (0.04%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.03%) and Cerebellum GP LLC (0.01%). Company insiders that own Portland General Electric stock include Bradley Young Jenkins, David Geophry Tafel, Kristin Anne Stathis, Larry Neal Bekkedahl and William David Robertson. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Portland General Electric.

POR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC, Scout Investments Inc., Alpha Windward LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Cerebellum GP LLC, Bowling Portfolio Management LLC and Jaffetilchin Investment Partners LLC. Company insiders that have sold Portland General Electric company stock in the last year include Bradley Young Jenkins, Kristin Anne Stathis and Larry Neal Bekkedahl. View Insider Buying and Selling for Portland General Electric.

POR stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fox Run Management L.L.C., Hexavest Inc., Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co. and Cerebellum GP LLC. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of POR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $55.67.

Portland General Electric has a market capitalization of $4.98 billion and generates $1.99 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $212 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.37 on an earnings per share basis. Portland General Electric employs 2,967 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Portland General Electric.

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]