NYSE:PRI - Primerica Stock Price, Forecast & News

Primerica trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "PRI."

Primerica announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 11th. Stockholders of record on Monday, February 24th will be paid a dividend of $0.40 per share on Monday, March 16th. This represents a $1.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.21%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 21st. This is an increase from Primerica's previous quarterly dividend of $0.34. View Primerica's Dividend History.

Primerica declared that its board has authorized a share repurchase program on Tuesday, February 11th 2020, which allows the company to repurchase $300,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 5.4% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Primerica, Inc. (NYSE:PRI) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February, 11th. The financial services provider reported $2.22 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $2.11 by $0.11. The financial services provider earned $530.94 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $526.19 million. Primerica had a net margin of 17.85% and a return on equity of 22.52%. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $2.01 earnings per share. View Primerica's Earnings History.

Primerica is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Primerica.

3 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Primerica's shares. Their forecasts range from $108.00 to $148.00. On average, they expect Primerica's share price to reach $128.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.3%. View Analyst Price Targets for Primerica.

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

News coverage about PRI stock has trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing 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 nearest to five being the most favorable. Primerica earned a news impact score of -1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Primerica.

Primerica saw a decline in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 618,200 shares, a decline of 15.0% from the December 31st total of 726,900 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 146,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.2 days. Currently, 1.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Primerica's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Primerica include Metlife (MET), AFLAC (AFL), Prudential Financial (PRU), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Lincoln National (LNC), Unum Group (UNM), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), CNO Financial Group (CNO), FBL Financial Group (FFG), National Western Life Group (NWLI), Independence (IHC), Health Insurance Innovations (HIIQ), Citizens (CIA) and Kansas City Life Insurance (KCLI).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Primerica investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Laredo Petroleum (LPI), General Electric (GE), Teekay Tankers (TNK), NVIDIA (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA), Netflix (NFLX), QUALCOMM (QCOM) and Exxon Mobil (XOM).

Primerica's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC (10.25%), FMR LLC (6.03%), Bamco Inc. NY (5.74%), State Street Corp (2.67%), Cantillon Capital Management LLC (2.17%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.71%). Company insiders that own Primerica stock include Alison S Rand, Barbara A Yastine, Glenn J Williams, Gregory C Pitts, John A Jr Addison, P George Benson, Peter W Schneider, Robert F Mccullough and William A Kelly. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Primerica.

PRI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Victory Capital Management Inc., Bamco Inc. NY, State Street Corp, Barclays PLC, PhiloSmith Capital Corp, Cantillon Capital Management LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc. and Marshall Wace North America L.P.. Company insiders that have sold Primerica company stock in the last year include Alison S Rand, Glenn J Williams, Gregory C Pitts, John A Jr Addison, Peter W Schneider and William A Kelly. View Insider Buying and Selling for Primerica.

PRI stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, FIL Ltd, UBS Asset Management Americas Inc., Geode Capital Management LLC, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., UBS Group AG, Credit Suisse AG and WCM Investment Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Primerica.

Shares of PRI 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 PRI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $132.33.

Primerica has a market capitalization of $5.47 billion and generates $2.05 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $366.39 million in net income (profit) each year or $8.43 on an earnings per share basis. Primerica employs 1,899 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Primerica.

The official website for Primerica is http://www.primerica.com/.

Primerica's mailing address is 1 PRIMERICA PARKWAY, DULUTH GA, 30099. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 770-381-1000 or via email at [email protected]