NYSE:SR - Spire Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Spire declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 6th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, March 11th will be given a dividend of $0.6225 per share on Thursday, April 2nd. This represents a $2.49 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.32%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, March 10th. This is an increase from Spire's previous quarterly dividend of $0.59. View Spire's Dividend History.

Spire Inc (NYSE:SR) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February, 5th. The utilities provider reported $1.33 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.26 by $0.07. The utilities provider had revenue of $566.90 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $588.22 million. Spire had a net margin of 9.53% and a return on equity of 7.85%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 5.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $1.30 earnings per share. View Spire's Earnings History.

Spire is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 6th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Spire.

9 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Spire's shares. Their forecasts range from $75.00 to $89.00. On average, they expect Spire's share price to reach $85.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 13.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Spire.

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

News articles about SR stock have trended somewhat positive on Friday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Spire earned a news impact score of 1.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Spire.

Spire saw a decrease in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,260,000 shares, a decrease of 11.3% from the January 15th total of 1,420,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 254,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 5.0 days. Approximately 2.6% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Spire's Current Options Chain.

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

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Spire investors own include AT&T (T), Starbucks (SBUX), Verizon Communications (VZ), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Walt Disney (DIS), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), Pfizer (PFE), Intel (INTC), Lockheed Martin (LMT) and Altria Group (MO).

Spire's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (3.50%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (3.02%), FMR LLC (2.12%), Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. (1.88%), Franklin Resources Inc. (1.78%) and Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. (1.53%). Company insiders that own Spire stock include Edward L Glotzbach, Sharon Osberg and Steven P Rasche. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Spire.

SR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Franklin Resources Inc., Bessemer Group Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Kennedy Capital Management Inc., PNC Financial Services Group Inc., Bank of America Corp DE, AQR Capital Management LLC and Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Spire.

SR stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Principal Financial Group Inc., Macquarie Group Ltd., State Street Corp, Barclays PLC, Prudential Financial Inc., First Trust Advisors LP, OLD Republic International Corp and UBS Group AG. Company insiders that have bought Spire stock in the last two years include Edward L Glotzbach, Sharon Osberg and Steven P Rasche. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of SR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $75.05.

Spire has a market capitalization of $3.83 billion and generates $1.95 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $184.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.73 on an earnings per share basis. Spire employs 3,536 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Spire.

The official website for Spire is http://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]