NYSE:UTLUnitil Stock Price, Forecast & News

Unitil's stock was trading at $58.73 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, UTL shares have decreased by 19.1% and is now trading at $47.52. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

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 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Unitil.

Unitil is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 23rd 2020. View our earnings forecast for Unitil.

Unitil Co. (NYSE:UTL) announced its earnings results on Thursday, April, 30th. The utilities provider reported $1.02 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.08 by $0.06. The utilities provider earned $130.40 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $160 million. Unitil had a return on equity of 8.73% and a net margin of 7.90%. View Unitil's earnings history.

Unitil announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 29th. Investors of record on Friday, May 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.375 per share on Friday, May 29th. This represents a $1.50 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.16%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 14th. View Unitil's dividend history.

2 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for Unitil's stock. Their forecasts range from $52.00 to $62.00. On average, they anticipate Unitil's stock price to reach $57.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 19.9% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Unitil.

Media stories about UTL stock have trended extremely negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Unitil earned a daily sentiment score of -5.0 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 effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutUnitil.

Unitil saw a increase in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 191,200 shares, an increase of 10.9% from the April 30th total of 172,400 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 76,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.5 days. Approximately 1.3% of the company's shares are sold short. View Unitil's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Unitil investors own include Consolidated Edison (ED), AT&T (T), Altria Group (MO), Southern (SO), Verizon Communications (VZ), Pfizer (PFE), Walmart (WMT), Exxon Mobil (XOM), AbbVie (ABBV) and Boeing (BA).

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

Unitil's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.00%), Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC (4.80%), Aristotle Capital Boston LLC (3.75%), State Street Corp (2.59%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.86%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.42%). View institutional ownership trends for Unitil.

UTL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Russell Investments Group Ltd., First Trust Advisors LP, Morgan Stanley, Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, BlackRock Inc., Aperio Group LLC, UBS Group AG, and AQR Capital Management LLC. View insider buying and selling activity for Unitil.

UTL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Boston Trust Walden Corp, Boston Trust Walden Corp, Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC, Advisor Group Holdings Inc., Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc., Strs Ohio, Principal Financial Group Inc., and JPMorgan Chase & Co.. View insider buying and selling activity 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 $47.52.

Unitil has a market capitalization of $710.90 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.

The official website for Unitil is 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]