Southwest Gas - SWX Stock Forecast, Price & News

5 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Southwest Gas in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" SWX shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in SWX, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Southwest Gas' stock. Their SWX share price forecasts range from $63.00 to $100.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $79.60 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 28.4% from the stock's current price.
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Southwest Gas' stock was trading at $61.88 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, SWX shares have increased by 0.1% and is now trading at $61.97.
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Southwest Gas saw a drop in short interest in February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 2,120,000 shares, a drop of 27.4% from the February 13th total of 2,920,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 500,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.2 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, May 8th 2023.
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Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:SWX) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, November, 9th. The utilities provider reported $0.05 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.17 by $0.12. The utilities provider earned $888.70 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $814.82 million. Southwest Gas had a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 5.86% and a negative net margin of 4.10%. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.32 earnings per share.

Southwest Gas announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 23rd. Shareholders of record on Monday, May 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.62 per share on Thursday, June 1st. This represents a $2.48 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.00%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, May 12th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Southwest Gas (NYSE:SWX) stock in their portfolio include LeaderShares Activist Leaders ETF (ACTV), Invesco Dynamic Building & Construction ETF (PKB), Inspire Faithward Mid Cap Momentum ETF (GLRY), ProShares S&P MidCap 400 Dividend Aristocrats ETF (REGL), VanEck Green Infrastructure ETF (RNEW), Tortoise North American Pipeline Fund (TPYP), ProShares Russell 2000 Dividend Growers ETF (SMDV) and Invesco S&P MidCap Momentum ETF (XMMO).

Southwest Gas (NYSE:SWX) pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.11%. SWX has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer.
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13 employees have rated Southwest Gas Chief Executive Officer John P. Hester on Glassdoor.com. John P. Hester has an approval rating of 68% among the company's employees.

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Southwest Gas trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SWX."

Southwest Gas' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. (3.52%), T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. (3.11%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (2.10%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.87%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.81%) and Gabelli Funds LLC (1.78%). Insiders that own company stock include Carl C Icahn, Eric Debonis, Jose Luis Esparza Jr, Justin L Brown, Lori L Colvin and Paul M Daily.
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Shares of SWX stock 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.
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One share of SWX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $61.97.

Southwest Gas (NYSE:SWX) has a market capitalization of $4.16 billion and generates $4.96 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $-203,290,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($2.88) on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 2,351 workers across the globe.

Southwest Gas' mailing address is 5241 SPRING MOUNTAIN ROAD PO BOX 98510, LAS VEGAS NV, 89193. The official website for the company is www.swgasholdings.com. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at (702) 876-7237, via email at ken.kenny@swgas.com, or via fax at 702-876-7037.