NYSE:SIX - Six Flags Stock Price, Price Target & More

Six Flags trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SIX."

Six Flags announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, May 4th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, May 31st will be given a dividend of $0.78 per share on Monday, June 11th. This represents a $3.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.29%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, May 30th. View Six Flags' Dividend History.

Six Flags announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback program on Thursday, April 6th 2017, which permits the company to buyback $500,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase up to 9.2% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are generally an indication that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Six Flags (NYSE:SIX) released its earnings results on Tuesday, April, 24th. The company reported ($0.74) earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.79) by $0.05. The business earned $128.96 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $118.75 million. Six Flags had a negative return on equity of 31.58% and a net margin of 19.38%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 29.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned ($0.63) earnings per share. View Six Flags' Earnings History.

Six Flags is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, July, 24th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Six Flags.

11 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for Six Flags' stock. Their forecasts range from $58.00 to $80.00. On average, they anticipate Six Flags' share price to reach $69.70 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Six Flags.

Six Flags saw a increase in short interest in May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 13,425,915 shares, an increase of 41.8% from the May 15th total of 9,471,127 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,178,330 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 11.4 days. Approximately 17.2% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Six Flags' Current Options Chain.

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Media stories about SIX stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, according to Accern. Accern scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than 20 million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Six Flags earned a media sentiment score of 0.04 on Accern's scale. They also gave media coverage about the company an impact score of 44.89 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term.

Six Flags' stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (7.75%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (3.14%), CI Investments Inc. (2.14%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (1.67%), Cardinal Capital Management LLC CT (1.06%) and Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. (0.93%). Company insiders that own Six Flags stock include Brett Petit, Catherine Aslin, James Reid-Anderson, John M Duffey, Jon L Luther, Lance C Balk, Mario L Centola, Marshall Barber, Usman Nabi and Walter Hawrylak. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Six Flags.

SIX stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Victory Capital Management Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Boston Partners, GW&K Investment Management LLC, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Loomis Sayles & Co. L P, UBS Group AG and Nuveen Asset Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Six Flags company stock in the last year include Catherine Aslin, James Reid-Anderson, Lance C Balk and Marshall Barber. View Insider Buying and Selling for Six Flags.

SIX stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Waratah Capital Advisors Ltd., Millennium Management LLC, Carillon Tower Advisers Inc., SkyBridge Capital II LLC, Cardinal Capital Management LLC CT, Hourglass Capital LLC and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA. Company insiders that have bought Six Flags stock in the last two years include John M Duffey and Jon L Luther. View Insider Buying and Selling for Six Flags.

Shares of SIX 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 SIX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $72.76.

Six Flags has a market capitalization of $6.02 billion and generates $1.36 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $273.81 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.13 on an earnings per share basis. Six Flags employs 2,000 workers across the globe.

Six Flags' mailing address is 924 AVENUE J EAST, GRAND PRAIRIE TX, 75050. The company can be reached via phone at 972-595-5000 or via email at [email protected]