NYSE:UTL - Unitil Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Unitil declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 29th. Investors of record on Friday, February 14th will be given a dividend of $0.375 per share on Friday, February 28th. This represents a $1.50 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.54%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 13th. This is a positive change from Unitil's previous quarterly dividend of $0.37. View Unitil's Dividend History.

Unitil Co. (NYSE:UTL) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January, 30th. The utilities provider reported $0.77 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.77. The utilities provider earned $116.40 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $128 million. Unitil had a return on equity of 9.22% and a net margin of 10.09%. View Unitil's Earnings History.

Unitil is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 23rd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Unitil.

1 brokers have issued 1 year price targets for Unitil's stock. Their forecasts range from $59.79 to $59.79. On average, they anticipate Unitil's stock price to reach $59.79 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Unitil.

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

Media headlines about UTL stock have trended negative this week, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Unitil earned a media sentiment score of -2.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Unitil.

Unitil saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 82,800 shares, an increase of 26.8% from the January 15th total of 65,300 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 57,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.5 days. Approximately 0.6% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Unitil's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Unitil include NextEra Energy (NEE), Duke Energy (DUK), Southern (SO), Exelon (EXC), American Electric Power (AEP), Xcel Energy (XEL), Eversource Energy (ES), Edison International (EIX), PPL (PPL), FirstEnergy (FE), 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), Verizon Communications (VZ), Altria Group (MO), Southern (SO), Walmart (WMT), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), AbbVie (ABBV) and Boeing (BA).

Unitil's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Renaissance Technologies LLC (6.28%), State Street Corp (2.62%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.60%), Tributary Capital Management LLC (1.39%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.35%) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (1.17%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for Unitil.

UTL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC, Panagora Asset Management Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., Foundry Partners LLC, Stifel Financial Corp, AQR Capital Management LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp and Tributary Capital Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Unitil.

UTL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Principal Financial Group Inc., First Trust Advisors LP, Knights of Columbus Asset Advisors LLC, Raymond James & Associates, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., State Street Corp, Bank of Montreal Can and California Public Employees Retirement System. 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 $59.00.

Unitil has a market capitalization of $880.93 million and generates $438.20 million in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $44.20 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.31 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]