NYSE:TGNA - TEGNA Stock Price, Forecast & News

TEGNA trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "TGNA."

TEGNA declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 20th. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.07 per share on Wednesday, April 1st. This represents a $0.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.67%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 5th. View TEGNA's Dividend History.

TEGNA Inc. (NYSE:TGNA) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, February, 11th. The company reported $0.47 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.43 by $0.04. The company earned $693.90 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $690.01 million. TEGNA had a return on equity of 20.43% and a net margin of 12.45%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 8.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.74 earnings per share. View TEGNA's Earnings History.

TEGNA is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 14th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for TEGNA.

TEGNA updated its FY 2019 After-Hours earnings guidance on Thursday, January, 9th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.294-2.299 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.28 billion.

10 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for TEGNA's stock. Their forecasts range from $17.00 to $22.00. On average, they anticipate TEGNA's stock price to reach $19.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 13.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for TEGNA.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for TEGNA in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for TEGNA.

News stories about TGNA stock have trended neutral this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog 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. TEGNA earned a media sentiment score of 0.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the company a news buzz of 9.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for TEGNA.

TEGNA saw a decrease in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 13,060,000 shares, a decrease of 9.3% from the January 15th total of 14,400,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,770,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 7.4 days. Currently, 6.0% of the company's stock are short sold. View TEGNA's Current Options Chain.

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TEGNA's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (4.58%), New South Capital Management Inc. (4.44%), AQR Capital Management LLC (3.40%), LSV Asset Management (3.21%), Ariel Investments LLC (2.92%) and FMR LLC (2.17%). Company insiders that own TEGNA stock include Lynn B Trelstad and Neal Shapiro. View Institutional Ownership Trends for TEGNA.

TGNA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including UBS Group AG, AQR Capital Management LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Man Group plc, Schroder Investment Management Group, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Martingale Asset Management L P and Cove Street Capital LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for TEGNA.

TGNA stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Michigan Retirement System, FMR LLC, California Public Employees Retirement System, Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, W.E. Donoghue & Co. LLC, Prudential Financial Inc., Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A.. View Insider Buying and Selling for TEGNA.

Shares of TGNA 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 TGNA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $16.77.

TEGNA has a market capitalization of $3.64 billion and generates $2.30 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $286.23 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.38 on an earnings per share basis. TEGNA employs 5,336 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About TEGNA.

The official website for TEGNA is http://www.tegna.com/.

TEGNA's mailing address is 7950 JONES BRANCH DRIVE, MCLEAN VA, 22107. The company can be reached via phone at 703-854-7000 or via email at [email protected]