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, July 31st. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, September 25th will be given a dividend of $0.385 per share on Tuesday, October 15th. This represents a $1.54 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.78%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, September 24th. View Portland General Electric's Dividend History.

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

Portland General Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, October 25th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Portland General Electric.

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

4 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for Portland General Electric's shares. Their forecasts range from $43.00 to $52.00. On average, they anticipate Portland General Electric's share price to reach $47.6667 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 13.9%. 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 and 3 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Portland General Electric.

News articles about POR stock have trended somewhat positive on Sunday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Portland General Electric earned a daily sentiment score of 0.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the utilities provider a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Portland General Electric.

Portland General Electric saw a increase in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 814,200 shares, an increase of 5.5% from the July 31st total of 772,100 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 518,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.6 days. Approximately 0.9% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Portland General Electric's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Portland General Electric investors own include General Electric (GE), Synchrony Financial (SYF), Celestica (CLS), NVIDIA (NVDA), PepsiCo (PEP), AT&T (T), Alibaba Group (BABA), Netflix (NFLX), Micron Technology (MU) and Cummins (CMI).

Portland General Electric's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (10.86%), BlackRock Inc. (7.53%), BlackRock Inc. (7.53%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (4.40%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (2.61%) and Northern Trust Corp (2.11%). 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 Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Boston Partners, BlackRock Inc., BlackRock Inc., Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB publ, Invesco Ltd., Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co. and APG Asset Management N.V.. 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 Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Carlson Capital L P, Scout Investments Inc., Bank of America Corp DE, Allianz Asset Management GmbH, Acadian Asset Management LLC, Carillon Tower Advisers Inc. and AQR 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of POR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $55.37.

Portland General Electric has a market capitalization of $4.95 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]