News stories about Gazit-Globe (NYSE:GZT) (TSE:GZT) have been trending somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than 20 million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Gazit-Globe earned a coverage optimism score of 0.09 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned news coverage about the real estate investment trust an impact score of 45.9632930949308 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock’s share price in the immediate future.
Several analysts recently commented on GZT shares. Zacks Investment Research raised shares of Gazit-Globe from a “sell” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $11.00 price objective on the stock in a research report on Tuesday, May 30th. Barclays PLC reissued an “overweight” rating on shares of Gazit-Globe in a research report on Tuesday, March 28th. BidaskClub cut shares of Gazit-Globe from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 5th. Citigroup Inc. upgraded shares of Gazit-Globe from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and upped their target price for the company from $9.20 to $11.00 in a research note on Wednesday, July 12th. Finally, TD Securities restated a “buy” rating on shares of Gazit-Globe in a research note on Thursday, May 25th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, two have assigned a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the company. The stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $12.17.
Gazit-Globe (NYSE GZT) traded down 0.42% during trading on Wednesday, reaching $9.59. 916 shares of the company’s stock traded hands. Gazit-Globe has a one year low of $8.32 and a one year high of $10.97. The firm has a market cap of $1.87 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 8.59 and a beta of 1.13. The company has a 50 day moving average of $9.80 and a 200 day moving average of $9.97.
Gazit-Globe (NYSE:GZT) (TSE:GZT) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.54 earnings per share for the quarter. The business had revenue of $186.92 million for the quarter.
The firm also recently declared a special dividend, which was paid on Monday, July 3rd. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, June 20th were paid a dividend of $0.0974 per share. This is a positive change from Gazit-Globe’s previous special dividend of $0.10. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, June 20th.
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Gazit-Globe Company Profile
Gazit-Globe Ltd. is a real estate company specialized in retail premises. The Company is engaged in the acquisition, development and management of properties. Its segments include Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Estonia and Denmark. It focuses on supermarket-anchored shopping centers in urban growth markets.
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