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

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

Spire declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, July 30th. Investors of record on Wednesday, September 11th will be given a dividend of $0.592 per share on Wednesday, October 2nd. This represents a $2.37 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.83%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, September 10th. View Spire's Dividend History.

Spire Inc (NYSE:SR) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July, 30th. The utilities provider reported $0.07 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.10 by $0.03. The utilities provider earned $321.30 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $333.14 million. Spire had a net margin of 9.74% and a return on equity of 7.56%. The firm's revenue was down 8.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.31 earnings per share. View Spire's Earnings History.

Spire is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 21st 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Spire.

Spire updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Tuesday, July, 30th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $3.70-3.80 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.75.

4 equities research analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Spire's shares. Their predictions range from $75.00 to $89.00. On average, they expect Spire's stock price to reach $81.33 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.9%. View Analyst Price Targets for Spire.

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

Press coverage about SR stock has trended very negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Spire earned a coverage optimism score of -3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave 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 next several days. View News Stories for Spire.

Spire saw a decline in short interest in the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 1,550,000 shares, a decline of 8.8% from the August 30th total of 1,700,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 219,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 7.1 days. Currently, 3.1% of the shares of the company are sold short. 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), New Fortress Energy (NFE), South Jersey Industries (SJI), Northwest Natural (NWN) and Just Energy Group (JE).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Spire investors own include Starbucks (SBUX), AT&T (T), Marathon Oil (MRO), Alphabet (GOOG), Texas Instruments (TXN), Walt Disney (DIS), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), Home Depot (HD), Lockheed Martin (LMT) and Mondi (MNDI).

Spire's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. (1.83%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.04%), Fruth Investment Management (0.03%), Bowling Portfolio Management LLC (0.02%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%) and Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.02%). 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 Pacer Advisors Inc., Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. and Fruth Investment Management. View Insider Buying and Selling for Spire.

SR stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Assenagon Asset Management S.A.. 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 $83.72.

Spire has a market capitalization of $4.25 billion and generates $1.97 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $214.20 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.72 on an earnings per share basis. Spire employs 3,366 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]