Portland General Electric Co (NYSE:POR) currently has a daily average trading volume of 892.38K but it saw 744669 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 4.93B USD, the company’s current market price of $47.83 came falling about -0.95 while comparing to the previous closing price of $48.29. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $49.26 and as low as $38.01. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $47.33 while lowest mark touched by it was $48.29.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Portland General Electric Co (POR) gives us an average price of $47.61, while its current price level is -2.91% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 25.84% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $46.55 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $43.32. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.62% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 1.27%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 54.64 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
BofA Securities downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Neutral” from “Buy” on February 05, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $55-$43. UBS also issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $47 and $45.
Over the week, POR’s stock price is moving -2.13% down while it is 3.06% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 10.36% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 9.45%.
The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of 0.46 beat the consensus estimate of 0.46 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in October, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.58 while estimate for next year EPS is 3.08. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $749.55M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $3.04B and seeing the company making $3.23B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $850.03M for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Portland General Electric Co’s total number of outstanding shares is 103.07M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 3.65% and return on equity (ROE) at 8.86%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 16.44 while having a 14.73 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.60. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.41 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.66. Its return on asset (ROA) is 2.70% on average.
