Raytheon Stock Price, Forecast & Analysis (NYSE:RTN)

Raytheon trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "RTN."

Raytheon announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 13th. Investors of record on Wednesday, January 8th will be given a dividend of $0.9425 per share on Thursday, January 30th. This represents a $3.77 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.74%. View Raytheon's Dividend History.

Raytheon declared that its board has authorized a stock repurchase program on Thursday, November 16th 2017, which allows the company to buyback $2,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually an indication that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Raytheon (NYSE:RTN) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 24th. The aerospace company reported $3.08 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.86 by $0.22. The aerospace company earned $7.45 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $7.29 billion. Raytheon had a return on equity of 27.23% and a net margin of 11.47%. The business's revenue was up 9.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company posted $2.25 earnings per share. View Raytheon's Earnings History.

Raytheon is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 30th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Raytheon.

Raytheon issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Thursday, October, 24th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $11.70-11.80 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $11.75. The company issued revenue guidance of $29.1-29.4 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $29.07 billion.

18 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Raytheon's shares. Their forecasts range from $187.00 to $265.00. On average, they expect Raytheon's stock price to reach $218.71 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 0.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Raytheon.

18 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Raytheon in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 13 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Raytheon.

Media coverage about RTN stock has trended somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group identifies negative and positive media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Raytheon earned a daily sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the aerospace company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Raytheon.

Raytheon saw a increase in short interest in the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 4,970,000 shares, an increase of 10.0% from the September 30th total of 4,520,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,660,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.0 days. Currently, 1.8% of the company's stock are sold short. View Raytheon's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Raytheon include Boeing (BA), Honeywell International (HON), United Technologies (UTX), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Northrop Grumman (NOC), General Dynamics (GD), TransDigm Group (TDG), Heico (HEI), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Textron (TXT), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Spirit AeroSystems (SPR), Rockwell Collins (COL), Hexcel (HXL) and Curtiss-Wright (CW).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Raytheon investors own include Boeing (BA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Alibaba Group (BABA), Home Depot (HD), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), AT&T (T), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Intel (INTC) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM).

Raytheon's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.43%), CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC (0.33%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.26%), Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado (0.20%), Rhumbline Advisers (0.19%) and Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. (0.17%). Company insiders that own Raytheon stock include Anthony F O'brien, Dinesh C Paliwal, Frank R Jimenez, Letitia A Long, Michael J Wood, Randa G Newsome, Rebecca R Rhoads, Stephen J Hadley, Taylor W Lawrence, Thomas A Kennedy, Vernon E Clark and Wesley D Kremer. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Raytheon.

RTN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Artemis Investment Management LLP, First Trust Advisors LP, CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Bradley Foster & Sargent Inc. CT, Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd. and Icon Advisers Inc. Co.. Company insiders that have sold Raytheon company stock in the last year include Anthony F O'brien, Frank R Jimenez, Michael J Wood, Randa G Newsome, Stephen J Hadley and Wesley D Kremer. View Insider Buying and Selling for Raytheon.

RTN stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including SG Americas Securities LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., California Public Employees Retirement System, Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado, Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL, Connors Investor Services Inc., CWM LLC and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. View Insider Buying and Selling for Raytheon.

Shares of RTN 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 RTN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $216.70.

Raytheon has a market capitalization of $60.35 billion and generates $27.06 billion in revenue each year. The aerospace company earns $2.91 billion in net income (profit) each year or $10.61 on an earnings per share basis. Raytheon employs 67,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Raytheon.

The official website for Raytheon is http://www.raytheon.com/.

Raytheon's mailing address is 870 WINTER STREET, WALTHAM MA, 02451. The aerospace company can be reached via phone at 781-522-3000 or via email at [email protected]