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

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

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 6th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, November 27th will be given a dividend of $0.20 per share on Wednesday, December 18th. This represents a $0.80 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.84%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, November 26th. View Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' Dividend History.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Inc (NYSE:RBA) released its earnings results on Thursday, November, 7th. The business services provider reported $0.23 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.22 by $0.01. The business services provider had revenue of $289.80 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $289.55 million. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers had a net margin of 9.90% and a return on equity of 15.88%. The business's revenue was up 18.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.18 EPS. View Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' Earnings History.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 27th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers.

9 brokerages have issued twelve-month price objectives for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' shares. Their forecasts range from $31.00 to $43.50. On average, they expect Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' share price to reach $37.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 14.7%. 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 3 sell ratings, 4 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 trended extremely negative on Monday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers earned a media sentiment score of -4.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the business services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers saw a decrease in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 429,600 shares, a decrease of 58.7% from the December 31st total of 1,040,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 396,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.1 days. Approximately 0.4% of the company's stock are short sold. View Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' Current Options Chain.

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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Riverbridge Partners LLC (3.23%), Marathon Asset Management LLP (1.46%), OLD National Bancorp IN (0.01%), Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (0.01%), OmniStar Financial Group Inc. (0.01%) and We Are One Seven LLC (0.01%). Company insiders that own Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers stock include Darren Jeffrey Watt, Edward Baltazar Pitoniak, Karl William Werner, Kieran Colquhoun Holm and Todd Donald Wohler. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers.

RBA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Riverbridge Partners LLC, Marathon Asset Management LLP, OmniStar Financial Group Inc., Diversified Trust Co, OLD National Bancorp IN and We Are One Seven LLC. Company insiders that have sold Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers company stock in the last year include Darren Jeffrey Watt and Todd Donald Wohler. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers.

RBA stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Exchange Traded Concepts LLC, Carroll Financial Associates Inc., Wedbush Securities Inc., Janney Montgomery Scott LLC and NEXT Financial Group Inc. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of RBA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $43.37.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers has a market capitalization of $4.74 billion and generates $1.17 billion in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $121.48 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.08 on an earnings per share basis. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers employs 2,200 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers.

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]