NYSE:RBA - Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "RBA."

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, January 29th. Shareholders of record on Friday, February 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.18 per share on Friday, March 8th. This represents a $0.72 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.97%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 14th. View Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' Dividend History.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Inc (NYSE:RBA) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August, 9th. The business services provider reported $0.42 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.36 by $0.06. The business services provider had revenue of $206.80 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $225.52 million. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers had a return on equity of 14.15% and a net margin of 12.36%. The company's revenue was up 24.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.33 earnings per share. View Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' Earnings History.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, February 25th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, March 1st at 11:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 8882318191.

9 brokers have issued 12-month price targets for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' shares. Their predictions range from $28.00 to $44.00. On average, they expect Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' share price to reach $37.1667 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers.

Headlines about RBA stock have been trending positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of media 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. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers earned a coverage optimism score of 2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the business services provider a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future.

Some companies that are related to Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers include Msci (MSCI), CoStar Group (CSGP), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Alliance Data Systems (ADS), Nielsen (NLSN), CIELO S A/S (CIOXY), The Western Union (WU), Zillow Group (Z), GrubHub (GRUB), WEX (WEX), Zillow Group (ZG), CDK Global (CDK), Fair Isaac (FICO) and Etsy (ETSY).

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Baillie Gifford & Co. (10.20%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (8.02%), Riverbridge Partners LLC (4.17%), Eagle Asset Management Inc. (3.10%), Mondrian Investment Partners LTD (2.06%) and Fiera Capital Corp (1.99%). Company insiders that own Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers stock include Darren Jeffrey Watt, Edward Baltazar Pitoniak, Karl William Werner, Kieran Colquhoun Holm and Sharon Ruth Driscoll. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers.

RBA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including TD Asset Management Inc., Standard Life Aberdeen plc, Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, Riverbridge Partners LLC, D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., Royce & Associates LP, Mondrian Investment Partners LTD and Baillie Gifford & Co.. Company insiders that have sold Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers company stock in the last year include Darren Jeffrey Watt, Karl William Werner and Kieran Colquhoun Holm. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers.

RBA stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Eagle Asset Management Inc., Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Bank of Montreal Can, Mackenzie Financial Corp, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of Alberta as represented by Alberta Investment Management Corp and Intact Investment Management Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers stock in the last two years include Edward Baltazar Pitoniak and Sharon Ruth Driscoll. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers.

Shares of RBA 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 RBA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $36.64.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers has a market capitalization of $3.98 billion and generates $610.52 million in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $75.02 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.81 on an earnings per share basis. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers employs 2,100 workers across the globe.

The official website for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers is http://www.rbauction.com.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' mailing address is 9500 GLENLYON PARKWAY, BURNABY A1, V5J 0C6. The business services provider can be reached via phone at 778-331-5500 or via email at [email protected]