Stewart Information Services (STC) Stock Price, News & Analysis

3 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Stewart Information Services in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" STC shares.
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3 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Stewart Information Services' stock. Their STC share price targets range from $59.00 to $79.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $69.33 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 16.4% from the stock's current price.
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Stewart Information Services' stock was trading at $58.75 at the start of the year. Since then, STC stock has increased by 1.4% and is now trading at $59.59.
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Stewart Information Services saw a decrease in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 531,300 shares, a decrease of 58.5% from the March 15th total of 1,280,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 226,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.3 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2024.
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Stewart Information Services Co. (NYSE:STC) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February, 8th. The insurance provider reported $0.60 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.46 by $0.14. The insurance provider had revenue of $582.17 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $566.46 million. Stewart Information Services had a net margin of 1.35% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 3.85%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 11.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.60 earnings per share.

Stewart Information Services announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, March 1st. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.475 per share on Thursday, March 28th. This represents a $1.90 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.19%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 14th.
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Stewart Information Services (NYSE:STC) pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.17%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 171.17%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, STC will have a dividend payout ratio of 29.97% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Stewart Information Services (NYSE:STC) stock in their portfolio include First Trust Small Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund (FYT), Hartford Multifactor Small Cap ETF (ROSC), WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Quality Dividend Growth Fund (DGRS), iShares US Small Cap Value Factor ETF (SVAL) and First Trust Small Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund (FYX).Timothy Plan US Small Cap Core ETF (TPSC).

21 employees have rated Stewart Information Services Chief Executive Officer Fred Eppinger on Glassdoor.com. Fred Eppinger has an approval rating of 99% among the company's employees. This puts Fred Eppinger in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Stewart Information Services investors own include Xtrackers California Municipal Bond ETF (CA), BlackRock (BLK), Endologix (ELGX), Athabasca Oil (ATH), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), NIC (EGOV), Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (ANW), Transocean (RIG), ALJ Regional (ALJJ) and Gran Tierra Energy (GTE).

Stewart Information Services' stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.28%). Insiders that own company stock include C Allen Bradley Jr, Frederick H Eppinger, Matthew Morris and Steven Mark Lessack.
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