Prudential Stock Forecast, Price & News

13 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Prudential in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 4 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" Prudential stock. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in PUK, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Prudential saw a drop in short interest in May. As of May 28th, there was short interest totaling 280,100 shares, a drop of 27.3% from the May 13th total of 385,200 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 183,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.5 days. Approximately 0.0% of the company's shares are short sold.
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Prudential's stock was trading at $26.56 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, PUK stock has increased by 58.3% and is now trading at $42.05.
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Prudential declared a semi-annual dividend on Friday, March 5th. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 26th will be paid a dividend of $0.1073 per share on Friday, May 14th. This represents a dividend yield of 0.8%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 25th.
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Prudential pays an annual dividend of $0.43 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.03%. Prudential does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Prudential is 12.25%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Prudential will have a dividend payout ratio of 12.11% next year. This indicates that Prudential will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Some companies that are related to Prudential include AIA Group (AAGIY), AXA (AXAHY), China Life Insurance (LFC), MetLife (MET), Prudential Financial (PRU), Manulife Financial (MFC), Sun Life Financial (SLF), Swiss Re (SSREY), Aviva (AVVIY), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Lincoln National (LNC), Athene (ATH), Globe Life (GL), Sony Financial (SNYFY) and Reinsurance Group of America (RGA).
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Prudential trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "PUK."

Prudential's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Lazard Asset Management LLC (0.23%), Optiver Holding B.V. (0.17%), BlackRock Inc. (0.17%), Northern Trust Corp (0.12%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (0.07%) and Royal Bank of Canada (0.07%).

PUK stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Jane Street Group LLC, Rock Point Advisors LLC, Citadel Advisors LLC, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Verition Fund Management LLC, Royal Bank of Canada, and Crossmark Global Holdings Inc..

PUK stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Optiver Holding B.V., BlackRock Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Scotia Capital Inc., Optiver Holding B.V., Paradigm Asset Management Co. LLC, Northern Trust Corp, and Brinker Capital Investments LLC.

Shares of PUK can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of PUK stock can currently be purchased for approximately $42.05.

Prudential has a market capitalization of $54.86 billion and generates $55.97 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $2.12 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.51 on an earnings per share basis.

Prudential employs 17,256 workers across the globe.

The following companies are subsidiares of Prudential: Assurance IQ.

Prudential was founded in 1848.

The official website for Prudential is www.prudential.co.uk.

Prudential is headquartered at 1 ANGEL COURT, LONDON X0, EC2R 7AG.

Prudential's mailing address is 1 ANGEL COURT, LONDON X0, EC2R 7AG. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 442072207588 or via email at [email protected]