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. Investors 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 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.96%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, December 24th. View Portland General Electric's Dividend History.

Portland General Electric (NYSE:POR) released its earnings results on Friday, October, 26th. The utilities provider reported $0.59 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping 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 net margin of 10.34% and a return on equity of 9.05%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 1.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.44 EPS. 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 (EPS) 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 brokers have issued 12 month price objectives for Portland General Electric's shares. Their forecasts range from $39.00 to $48.00. On average, they anticipate Portland General Electric's stock price to reach $42.9375 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 12.3%. 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.

Media stories about POR stock have trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Portland General Electric earned a coverage optimism score of 1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future.

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Portland General Electric's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (9.60%), Vanguard Group Inc (9.60%), BlackRock Inc. (8.12%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (5.00%), Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. (3.21%) and Alliancebernstein L.P. (2.28%). 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, FMR LLC, BlackRock Inc., American Century Companies Inc., Thompson Siegel & Walmsley LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. and Morgan Stanley. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB publ, Man Group plc, Teachers Advisors LLC, Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., FIL Ltd and Russell Investments Group Ltd.. 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 $48.96.

Portland General Electric has a market capitalization of $4.37 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]