NYSE:PRGO - Perrigo Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Perrigo trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "PRGO."

Perrigo announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 31st. Investors of record on Friday, November 30th will be paid a dividend of $0.19 per share on Tuesday, December 18th. This represents a $0.76 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.33%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 29th. View Perrigo's Dividend History.

Perrigo Company PLC (NYSE:PRGO) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 8th. The company reported $1.09 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.05 by $0.04. The firm had revenue of $1.13 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.17 billion. Perrigo had a return on equity of 11.32% and a net margin of 2.54%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 8.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $1.39 earnings per share. View Perrigo's Earnings History.

Perrigo is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, March 7th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Perrigo.

Perrigo issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 8th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $4.45-4.65 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $4.86. The company issued revenue guidance of ~$4.72 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.87 billion.Perrigo also updated its FY 2018 guidance to $4.45-4.65 EPS.

15 brokers have issued twelve-month price objectives for Perrigo's shares. Their forecasts range from $63.00 to $110.00. On average, they expect Perrigo's stock price to reach $82.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 43.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Perrigo.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Perrigo in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 11 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Perrigo.

Media stories about PRGO stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Perrigo earned a media sentiment score of 1.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future.

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Perrigo's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (10.36%), Vanguard Group Inc (10.36%), FMR LLC (8.10%), Franklin Resources Inc. (6.79%), BlackRock Inc. (6.08%) and Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (4.13%). Company insiders that own Perrigo stock include Geoffrey M Parker, Jeffrey C Smith, Jeffrey Needham, John Wesolowski, Murray S Kessler, Sharon Kochan, Svend Andersen, Thomas Farrington, Todd W Kingma and Uwe Roehrhoff. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Perrigo.

PRGO stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Renaissance Technologies LLC, Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., BlackRock Inc., Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., Deutsche Bank AG, Migdal Insurance & Financial Holdings Ltd., Crawford Investment Counsel Inc. and Panagora Asset Management Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Perrigo.

PRGO stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Iridian Asset Management LLC CT, Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, Mivtachim The Workers Social Insurance Fund Ltd. Under Special Management, First Eagle Investment Management LLC, Nordea Investment Management AB, Franklin Resources Inc. and Victory Capital Management Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Perrigo stock in the last two years include Geoffrey M Parker, Jeffrey C Smith, John Wesolowski, Murray S Kessler, Svend Andersen, Todd W Kingma and Uwe Roehrhoff. View Insider Buying and Selling for Perrigo.

Shares of PRGO 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 PRGO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $56.99.

Perrigo has a market capitalization of $8.00 billion and generates $4.95 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $119.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.93 on an earnings per share basis. Perrigo employs 10,400 workers across the globe.

The official website for Perrigo is http://www.perrigo.com.

Perrigo's mailing address is TREASURY BUILDING LOWER GRAND CANAL STREET, DUBLIN L2, 49010. The company can be reached via phone at 353-1709-4000 or via email at [email protected]