NYSE:SR - Spire Stock Price, Price Target & More

Spire trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SR."

Spire declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 2nd. Shareholders of record on Monday, June 11th will be given a dividend of $0.5625 per share on Tuesday, July 3rd. This represents a $2.25 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.14%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, June 8th. View Spire's Dividend History.

Spire Inc (NYSE:SR) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May, 2nd. The utilities provider reported $2.83 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.48 by $0.35. The utilities provider had revenue of $813.40 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $685.12 million. Spire had a return on equity of 9.99% and a net margin of 11.37%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 22.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $2.38 EPS. View Spire's Earnings History.

Spire is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, July, 31st 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Spire.

Spire updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Wednesday, May, 2nd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $3.65-$3.75 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $3.73.

9 equities research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Spire's stock. Their predictions range from $65.00 to $75.00. On average, they expect Spire's stock price to reach $71.8571 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 0.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Ratings for Spire.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Spire in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 4 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."

Some companies that are related to Spire include Atmos Energy (ATO), Ultrapar Participacoes (UGP), National Fuel Gas (NFG), WGL (WGL), New Jersey Resources (NJR), ONE Gas (OGS), South Jersey Industries (SJI), Northwest Natural Gas (NWN) and Just Energy Group (JE).

News stories about SR stock have trended positive on Tuesday, according to Accern Sentiment. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Spire earned a media sentiment score of 0.32 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the utilities provider an impact score of 45.75 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days.

Spire's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Deprince Race & Zollo Inc. (1.02%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.03%) and Miller Howard Investments Inc. NY (0.03%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for Spire.

SR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Miller Howard Investments Inc. NY. View Insider Buying and Selling for Spire.

SR stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Deprince Race & Zollo Inc. and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. View Insider Buying and Selling for Spire.

Shares of SR 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 SR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $71.70.

Spire has a market capitalization of $3.49 billion and generates $1.74 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $161.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.56 on an earnings per share basis. Spire employs 3,279 workers across the globe.

Spire's mailing address is 700 MARKET STREET, ST LOUIS MO, 63101. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 314-342-0500 or via email at [email protected]