Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (PEG) concluded trading on 01/11/24 at a closing price of $60.31, with 2.62 million shares of worth about $157.94 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -5.82% during that period and on Thursday the price saw a loss of about -2.74%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 498.31M shares, out of which, 497.62M shares are available for trading.
A deeper look into what the analysts at Wall Street are thinking about the price target of this stock provides us with the following: 20 analysts are covering the PEG stock and their offered price forecasts bring an average price target of $65.78. Over the next 12 months, analysts forecasted that the stock’s price could jump as high as $70.00 and could fall to a lowest price of $61.50. The stock’s current price level is 8.32% above of average price target set by the analysts, while a rise to estimated low would result in gain of 1.93% for the stock. However, touching the estimated high of $70.00 would mean a gain of 13.84% for the stock.
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According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 33 times over the past 12 months. They bought 154,690 shares in 18 of the transactions. In 15 selling transactions, insiders dumped 46,435 shares.
Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (NYSE: PEG) started trading at $61.77, below -$0.24 from concluding price of the previous day. However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 61.80, or with a loss of -2.74%. Stock saw a price change of -2.40% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -4.24%. Year-to-date (YTD), PEG shares are showing a performance of -1.37% which decreased to -5.28% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $53.71 but also hit the highest price of $65.46 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. shares is 2.91 million. The stock is currently trading -2.21% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -3.41% for SMA50 and it goes to -2.34% lower than SMA200.
Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (NYSE: PEG) currently have 498.31M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 75.36% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $30.05B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.58. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 10.75, while it has posted earnings per share of $5.61 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.07 and has Quick Ratio of 0.45 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.31. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for PEG, volatility over the week remained 1.61% while standing at 1.66% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -0.23% while it is estimated to increase by 6.51% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 5.20% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -7.87% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Analysts at 20 brokerage firms have issued recommendations for the Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (PEG)’s stock and average of those rates the stock at a “Moderate Buy” and assign it a score of 2.20. Out of those 20 Wall Street analysts, 8 recommended a “Buy” rating, while 10 were in favor recommending the stock as a “Hold” and 0 analyst recommended the stock as “Sell”.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Barclays on August 23, 2023 offering an Overweight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $64 to it.
