NYSE:UTL - Unitil Stock Price, Forecast & News

Unitil trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "UTL."

Unitil announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 23rd. Investors of record on Wednesday, November 13th will be paid a dividend of $0.37 per share on Wednesday, November 27th. This represents a $1.48 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.35%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, November 12th. View Unitil's Dividend History.

Unitil Co. (NYSE:UTL) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 24th. The utilities provider reported $0.15 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.14 by $0.01. The utilities provider had revenue of $85.30 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $87 million. Unitil had a return on equity of 9.27% and a net margin of 9.79%. View Unitil's Earnings History.

Unitil is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 30th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Unitil.

Unitil will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, January 30th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

2 analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Unitil's shares. Their forecasts range from $51.00 to $59.79. On average, they expect Unitil's share price to reach $55.40 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 12.1%. View Analyst Price Targets for Unitil.

2 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Unitil in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating and 1 hold rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Unitil.

Press coverage about UTL stock has been trending extremely negative on Tuesday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Unitil earned a daily sentiment score of -4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the utilities provider a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is very unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Unitil.

Unitil saw a decrease in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 65,300 shares, a decrease of 36.2% from the December 15th total of 102,300 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 56,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.1 days. Currently, 0.5% of the company's stock are sold short. View Unitil's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Unitil include NextEra Energy (NEE), Southern (SO), Duke Energy (DUK), American Electric Power (AEP), Exelon (EXC), Xcel Energy (XEL), Eversource Energy (ES), Edison International (EIX), FirstEnergy (FE), PPL (PPL), Entergy (ETR), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA) and Portland General Electric (POR).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Unitil investors own include Consolidated Edison (ED), AT&T (T), Boeing (BA), Southern (SO), Verizon Communications (VZ), Walmart (WMT), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), AbbVie (ABBV) and International Paper (IP).

Unitil's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Tributary Capital Management LLC (1.39%), Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co. (0.62%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.24%), First National Bank of Omaha (0.09%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.08%) and Huntington National Bank (0.00%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for Unitil.

UTL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Tributary Capital Management LLC and Hennessy Advisors Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Unitil.

UTL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co., Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Huntington National Bank and First National Bank of Omaha. View Insider Buying and Selling for Unitil.

Shares of UTL 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 UTL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $63.02.

Unitil has a market capitalization of $940.89 million and generates $444.10 million in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $33 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.23 on an earnings per share basis. Unitil employs 520 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Unitil.

The official website for Unitil is http://www.unitil.com/.

Unitil's mailing address is 6 LIBERTY LANE WEST, HAMPTON NH, 03842. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 603-772-0775 or via email at [email protected]