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 yield of 2.31%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, November 12th. View Unitil's Dividend History.

Unitil Co. (NYSE:UTL) issued its earnings results on Thursday, October, 24th. The utilities provider reported $0.15 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.14 by $0.01. The utilities provider had revenue of $85.30 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates 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 brokers have issued 12 month price objectives for Unitil's shares. Their forecasts range from $51.00 to $59.79. On average, they expect Unitil's stock price to reach $55.40 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 13.5%. 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.

Media stories about UTL stock have been trending extremely negative on Monday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive 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 closest to five being the most favorable. Unitil earned a media sentiment score of -4.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Unitil.

Unitil saw a decrease in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 65,300 shares, a decrease of 36.2% from the December 31st total of 102,300 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 56,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.2 days. Approximately 0.5% of the shares of the 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders 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%), Strs Ohio (0.08%) and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.08%). 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, Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC and Hennessy Advisors Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Unitil.

UTL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co., Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Huntington National Bank, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, NEXT Financial Group Inc, First National Bank of Omaha and Strs Ohio. 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 $64.05.

Unitil has a market capitalization of $956.27 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]