Spire Stock Forecast, Price & News

Spire's stock was trading at $73.68 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, SR shares have decreased by 17.5% and is now trading at $60.75.
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11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Spire in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" Spire stock.
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538 employees have rated Spire CEO Thomas Greco on Glassdoor.com. Thomas Greco has an approval rating of 63% among Spire's employees. This puts Thomas Greco in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Spire is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 4th 2021.
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Spire will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 4th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Spire Inc. (NYSE:SR) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November, 17th. The utilities provider reported ($0.37) earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.41) by $0.04. The utilities provider had revenue of $251.90 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $242.53 million. Spire had a return on equity of 8.88% and a net margin of 4.76%.
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Spire announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 19th. Shareholders of record on Friday, December 11th will be paid a dividend of $0.65 per share on Tuesday, January 5th. This represents a $2.60 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.28%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 10th. This is a positive change from Spire's previous quarterly dividend of $0.62.
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Spire pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.25%. SR has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. Spire does not yet have a strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Spire is 69.15%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Spire will have a dividend payout ratio of 59.91% next year. This indicates that Spire will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Spire updated its FY 2021 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Wednesday, November, 18th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 4.00-4.20 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $4.04.

11 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for Spire's stock. Their forecasts range from $65.00 to $78.00. On average, they expect Spire's stock price to reach $71.25 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 17.3% from the stock's current price.
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Spire saw a increase in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totaling 976,700 shares, an increase of 19.8% from the December 15th total of 815,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 305,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.2 days.
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Some companies that are related to Spire include Atmos Energy (ATO), New Fortress Energy (NFE), ENAGAS S A/ADR (ENGGY), Ultrapar Participações (UGP), National Fuel Gas (NFG), ONE Gas (OGS), New Jersey Resources (NJR), South Jersey Industries (SJI), Northwest Natural (NWN), Just Energy Group (JE) and Stabilis Solutions (SLNG).
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Spire trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SR."

Spire's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.01%), Exchange Traded Concepts LLC (0.01%) and Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. (0.01%). Company insiders that own Spire stock include Edward L Glotzbach and Steven P Rasche.
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SR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pacer Advisors Inc., Crossmark Global Holdings Inc., and State of Alaska Department of Revenue.
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SR stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Exchange Traded Concepts LLC. Company insiders that have bought Spire stock in the last two years include Edward L Glotzbach, and Steven P Rasche.
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Shares of SR can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of SR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $60.75.

Spire has a market capitalization of $3.14 billion and generates $1.86 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $88.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.76 on an earnings per share basis. Spire employs 3,583 workers across the globe.

The official website for Spire is www.spireenergy.com.

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]