Stewart Information Services (STC) Stock Price, News & Analysis

3 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Stewart Information Services in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" STC shares.
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3 brokers have issued 12-month price targets for Stewart Information Services' stock. Their STC share price targets range from $59.00 to $79.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $69.33 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 15.1% from the stock's current price.
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Stewart Information Services' stock was trading at $58.75 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, STC shares have increased by 2.5% and is now trading at $60.23.
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Stewart Information Services saw a drop in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 531,300 shares, a drop of 58.5% from the March 15th total of 1,280,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 226,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.3 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2024.
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Stewart Information Services will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, April 25th at 8:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 402-220-2333.

Stewart Information Services Co. (NYSE:STC) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February, 8th. The insurance provider reported $0.60 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.46 by $0.14. The insurance provider had revenue of $582.17 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $566.46 million. Stewart Information Services had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 3.85% and a net margin of 1.35%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 11.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.60 earnings per share.

Stewart Information Services announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, March 1st. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 15th will be given a dividend of $0.475 per share on Thursday, March 28th. This represents a $1.90 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.15%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 14th.
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Stewart Information Services (NYSE:STC) pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.24%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 171.17%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, STC will have a dividend payout ratio of 29.97% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Stewart Information Services (NYSE:STC) stock in their portfolio include First Trust Small Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund (FYT), Hartford Multifactor Small Cap ETF (ROSC), WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Quality Dividend Growth Fund (DGRS), iShares US Small Cap Value Factor ETF (SVAL) and First Trust Small Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund (FYX).Timothy Plan US Small Cap Core ETF (TPSC).

21 employees have rated Stewart Information Services Chief Executive Officer Fred Eppinger on Glassdoor.com. Fred Eppinger has an approval rating of 99% among the company's employees. This puts Fred Eppinger in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Stewart Information Services investors own include Xtrackers California Municipal Bond ETF (CA), BlackRock (BLK), Endologix (ELGX), Athabasca Oil (ATH), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), NIC (EGOV), Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (ANW), Transocean (RIG), ALJ Regional (ALJJ) and Gran Tierra Energy (GTE).

Stewart Information Services' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (6.00%), Tributary Capital Management LLC (1.20%) and Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.28%). Insiders that own company stock include C Allen Bradley Jr, Frederick H Eppinger, Matthew Morris and Steven Mark Lessack.
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