Southwest Gas Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:SWX)

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Southwest Gas in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating and 3 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "reduce" SWX shares.
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4 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Southwest Gas' stock. Their SWX share price targets range from $61.00 to $95.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $73.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 20.6% from the stock's current price.
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Southwest Gas' stock was trading at $61.88 at the beginning of the year. Since then, SWX shares have decreased by 1.5% and is now trading at $60.94.
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Southwest Gas saw a increase in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,140,000 shares, an increase of 61.0% from the October 31st total of 1,950,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 473,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 6.6 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 27th 2024.
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Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:SWX) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, November, 8th. The utilities provider reported $0.10 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.02 by $0.08. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.17 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.06 billion. Southwest Gas had a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 7.32% and a negative net margin of 3.69%.

Southwest Gas declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 15th. Investors of record on Thursday, February 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.62 per share on Friday, March 1st. This represents a $2.48 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.07%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, February 14th.
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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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ETFs with the largest weight of Southwest Gas (NYSE:SWX) stock in their portfolio include LeaderShares Activist Leaders ETF (ACTV), Inspire Faithward Mid Cap Momentum ETF (GLRY), Ecofin US Renewables Infrastructure (RNEW), ProShares S&P MidCap 400 Dividend Aristocrats ETF (REGL), Tortoise North American Pipeline Fund (TPYP), Invesco S&P MidCap Low Volatility ETF (XMLV), ProShares Russell 2000 Dividend Growers ETF (SMDV) and Burney U.S. Factor Rotation ETF (BRNY).

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.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Southwest Gas investors own include Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Procter & Gamble (PG), Verizon Communications (VZ), Cisco Systems (CSCO), AT&T (T), Home Depot (HD), Pfizer (PFE), RTX (RTX) and Walmart (WMT).

Southwest Gas' stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. (2.83%), Channing Capital Management LLC (1.84%), Gabelli Funds LLC (1.72%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.65%), River Road Asset Management LLC (1.64%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.63%). Insiders that own company stock include Carl C Icahn, Eric Debonis, Justin L Brown and Lori L Colvin.
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