NYSE:RY - Royal Bank of Canada Stock Price, Forecast & News

Royal Bank of Canada trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "RY."

Royal Bank of Canada declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 21st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, April 23rd will be paid a dividend of $0.816 per share on Friday, May 22nd. This represents a $3.26 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.27%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, April 22nd. This is a positive change from Royal Bank of Canada's previous quarterly dividend of $0.79. View Royal Bank of Canada's Dividend History.

Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE:RY) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, December, 4th. The financial services provider reported $1.68 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.74 by $0.06. The financial services provider earned $8.59 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $8.97 billion. Royal Bank of Canada had a net margin of 19.36% and a return on equity of 17.32%. View Royal Bank of Canada's Earnings History.

Royal Bank of Canada is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 28th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Royal Bank of Canada.

7 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Royal Bank of Canada's stock. Their forecasts range from $111.00 to $120.00. On average, they expect Royal Bank of Canada's stock price to reach $114.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 49.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Royal Bank of Canada.

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

News articles about RY stock have been trending very negative on Thursday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies negative and positive media coverage by analyzing 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 nearest to five being the most favorable. Royal Bank of Canada earned a news sentiment score of -3.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned 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 stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Royal Bank of Canada.

Royal Bank of Canada saw a increase in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 4,780,000 shares, an increase of 8.1% from the January 15th total of 4,420,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 887,900 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.4 days. Currently, 0.3% of the company's shares are short sold. View Royal Bank of Canada's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Royal Bank of Canada include HDFC Bank (HDB), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), BNP PARIBAS/S (BNPQY), Banco Santander (SAN), Westpac Banking (WBK), ANZ (ANZBY), Bank of Montreal (BMO), ICICI Bank (IBN), Lloyds Banking Group (LYG), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Grp (SMFG), HANG SENG BK LT/S (HSNGY), ING Groep (ING), CR AGRICOLE S A/ADR (CRARY) and Boc Hong Kong (BHKLY).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Royal Bank of Canada investors own include Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), AT&T (T), AbbVie (ABBV), General Electric (GE), Pfizer (PFE), Enbridge (ENB), Bank of America (BAC), Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).

Royal Bank of Canada's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include TD Asset Management Inc. (2.12%), FIL Ltd (1.52%), Toronto Dominion Bank (1.29%), Beutel Goodman & Co Ltd. (1.26%), 1832 Asset Management L.P. (0.96%) and Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. (0.95%).

RY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FIL Ltd, Acadian Asset Management LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Alberta Investment Management Corp, Toronto Dominion Bank and DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale.

RY stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Jane Street Group LLC, M&G Investment Management Ltd., BRITISH COLUMBIA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT Corp, Hexavest Inc., Value Partner Investments Inc., Intact Investment Management Inc. and Cardinal Capital Management Inc..

Shares of RY 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 RY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $76.43.

Royal Bank of Canada has a market capitalization of $108.83 billion and generates $50.86 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $9.68 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.69 on an earnings per share basis. Royal Bank of Canada employs 82,801 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Royal Bank of Canada.

The official website for Royal Bank of Canada is http://www.rbc.com/.

Royal Bank of Canada's mailing address is 200 BAY STREET, TORONTO A6, M5J2J5. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 888-212-5533 or via email at [email protected]