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 announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 24th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, June 25th will be given a dividend of $0.385 per share on Monday, July 15th. This represents a $1.54 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.89%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, June 24th. This is an increase from Portland General Electric's previous quarterly dividend of $0.36. View Portland General Electric's Dividend History.

Portland General Electric (NYSE:POR) announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, April, 26th. The utilities provider reported $0.82 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.76 by $0.06. The utilities provider earned $573 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $520.05 million. Portland General Electric had a net margin of 10.67% and a return on equity of 8.84%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 16.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.72 earnings per share. View Portland General Electric's Earnings History.

Portland General Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, July 26th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Portland General Electric.

Portland General Electric updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Friday, April, 26th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.35-2.50 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $2.45. Portland General Electric also updated its FY 2019 guidance to $2.35-2.50 EPS.

5 brokers have issued 1 year price targets for Portland General Electric's shares. Their forecasts range from $42.00 to $52.00. On average, they anticipate Portland General Electric's stock price to reach $45.80 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 14.2%. View Analyst Price Targets for Portland General Electric.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Portland General Electric in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating and 4 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Portland General Electric.

News stories about POR stock have been trending somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Portland General Electric earned a news sentiment score of -1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term.

Portland General Electric saw a decline in short interest in the month of April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totalling 536,412 shares, a decline of 42.8% from the March 29th total of 937,808 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 522,741 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.0 days. Approximately 0.6% of the company's shares are short sold. View Portland General Electric's Current Options Chain.

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Portland General Electric's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (7.90%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (4.50%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (3.05%), AJO LP (3.02%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (2.56%) and Northern Trust Corp (2.09%). Company insiders that own Portland General Electric stock include Bradley Young Jenkins, David Geophry Tafel, 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 BlackRock Inc., Commonwealth Bank of Australia, FMR LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB publ , Morgan Stanley, Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC and Man Group plc. Company insiders that have sold Portland General Electric company stock in the last year include Bradley Young Jenkins, Larry Neal Bekkedahl and William David Robertson. View Insider Buying and Selling for Portland General Electric.

POR stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Principal Financial Group Inc., Acadian Asset Management LLC, ExodusPoint Capital Management LP, AQR Capital Management LLC, Scout Investments Inc., AJO LP, Great West Life Assurance Co. Can and Rothschild & Co. Asset Management US Inc.. 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 $53.36.

Portland General Electric has a market capitalization of $4.77 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.

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]