Spire Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:SR)

8 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Spire in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" SR shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in SR, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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8 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for Spire's stock. Their SR share price targets range from $55.00 to $69.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $62.63 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.4% from the stock's current price.
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Spire's stock was trading at $68.86 at the beginning of the year. Since then, SR stock has decreased by 9.4% and is now trading at $62.39.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 7th 2024.
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Spire Inc. (NYSE:SR) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 16th. The utilities provider reported ($0.78) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.64) by $0.14. The utilities provider earned $310.40 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $337.48 million. Spire had a net margin of 8.16% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.50%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 1.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned ($0.66) EPS.

Spire announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, November 13th. Shareholders of record on Monday, December 11th will be paid a dividend of $0.755 per share on Wednesday, January 3rd. This represents a $3.02 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.84%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 8th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.72.
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Spire (NYSE:SR) pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.65%. SR has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company has been increasing its dividend for 21 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 74.81%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, SR will have a dividend payout ratio of 63.02% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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27 employees have rated Spire Chief Executive Officer Suzanne Sitherwood on Glassdoor.com. Suzanne Sitherwood has an approval rating of 64% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Spire investors own include AT&T (T), Intel (INTC), Starbucks (SBUX), Walt Disney (DIS), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Coca-Cola (KO), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Verizon Communications (VZ), Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Home Depot (HD).

Spire's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include American Century Companies Inc. (13.10%), Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. (6.66%), Morgan Stanley (2.72%), Invesco Ltd. (1.50%), Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. (1.31%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.31%). Insiders that own company stock include Adam W Woodard, Brenda D Newberry, John P Stupp Jr, Paul D Koonce and Steven P Rasche.
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