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 Friday, February 15th. Stockholders of record on Monday, March 25th will be paid a dividend of $0.3625 per share on Monday, April 15th. This represents a $1.45 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.93%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 22nd. View Portland General Electric's Dividend History.

Portland General Electric (NYSE:POR) announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, February, 15th. The utilities provider reported $0.55 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.54 by $0.01. The utilities provider earned $524 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $520.95 million. Portland General Electric had a return on equity of 8.59% and a net margin of 10.65%. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.67 earnings per share. View Portland General Electric's Earnings History.

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

Portland General Electric issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Friday, February, 15th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.35-2.50 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $2.44.

8 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Portland General Electric's shares. Their predictions range from $39.00 to $50.00. On average, they anticipate Portland General Electric's stock price to reach $43.50 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 12.0%. 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.

News coverage about POR stock has trended somewhat negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Portland General Electric earned a news sentiment score of -1.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

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

Portland General Electric's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (9.81%), Northern Trust Corp (2.10%), Commonwealth Bank of Australia (1.81%), Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC (1.77%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.65%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.57%). 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 sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Bank of America Corp DE, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Boston Advisors LLC, Becker Capital Management Inc., Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Principal Financial Group Inc. and First Quadrant L P CA. Company insiders that have sold Portland General Electric company stock in the last year include Bradley Young Jenkins and William David Robertson. View Insider Buying and Selling for Portland General Electric.

POR stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Lord Abbett & CO. LLC, Scout Investments Inc., Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC, Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Geode Capital Management 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of POR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $49.43.

Portland General Electric has a market capitalization of $4.41 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 2,906 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]