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 given a dividend of $0.19 per share on Tuesday, December 18th. This represents a $0.76 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.65%. 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 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.05 by $0.04. The company had revenue of $1.13 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.17 billion. Perrigo had a net margin of 2.54% and a return on equity of 11.32%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 8.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company 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 updated 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.

13 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Perrigo's shares. Their predictions range from $46.00 to $110.00. On average, they anticipate Perrigo's share price to reach $77.3571 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 68.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Perrigo.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Perrigo in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 10 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Perrigo.

Media coverage about PRGO stock has trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Perrigo earned a coverage optimism score of 0.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the company a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is very unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term.

Perrigo saw a drop in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 5,474,515 shares, a drop of 37.7% from the December 14th total of 8,791,586 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,537,573 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.5 days. Currently, 4.0% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Perrigo's Current Options Chain.

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Perrigo's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Nippon Life Global Investors Americas Inc. (0.03%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.03%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.02%), Moon Capital Management LLC (0.02%), Meeder Asset Management Inc. (0.02%) and Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.00%). 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 Moon Capital Management LLC and Louisiana State Employees Retirement System. View Insider Buying and Selling for Perrigo.

PRGO stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Meeder Asset Management Inc., Nippon Life Global Investors Americas Inc., State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC. 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 $45.97.

Perrigo has a market capitalization of $6.10 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]