Media coverage about BT Group PLC (NYSE:BT) has been trending somewhat positive on Friday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. BT Group PLC earned a media sentiment score of 0.13 on Accern’s scale. Accern also gave news stories about the utilities provider an impact score of 44.4701347461624 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock’s share price in the near future.
Here are some of the news stories that may have effected Accern’s analysis:
- BT Federal Awarded Contract By U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) (finance.yahoo.com)
- BT Group PLC (BT) Stock Rating Reaffirmed by JP Morgan Chase & Co (fishinghd.com)
- BT Group Plc :BT.A-GB: Earnings Analysis: Q1, 2018 By the Numbers : August 2, 2017 (finance.yahoo.com)
- BT Sport partners with Gfinity to broadcast esports (campdesrecrues.com)
- BT Group (BT) Shares Cross Above 200 DMA (nasdaq.com)
BT has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Macquarie upgraded shares of BT Group PLC from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and boosted their target price for the stock from $270.00 to $330.00 in a report on Tuesday, June 27th. Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of BT Group PLC from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, April 17th. Citigroup Inc. restated a “buy” rating and set a GBX 360 ($4.75) target price on shares of BT Group PLC in a report on Monday. Royal Bank Of Canada restated an “outperform” rating and set a GBX 410 ($5.41) target price on shares of BT Group PLC in a report on Monday. Finally, Deutsche Bank AG restated a “sell” rating and set a GBX 265 ($3.50) target price on shares of BT Group PLC in a report on Thursday, June 15th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have issued a hold rating and ten have issued a buy rating to the company. The stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $339.33.
BT Group PLC (NYSE:BT) traded up 0.67% during trading on Friday, hitting $20.91. 402,643 shares of the company traded hands. The company has a market capitalization of $41.56 billion, a P/E ratio of 20.11 and a beta of 1.05. BT Group PLC has a 12-month low of $18.06 and a 12-month high of $27.55. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $19.44 and a 200 day moving average price of $20.01.
BT Group PLC (NYSE:BT) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May 10th. The utilities provider reported $0.52 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.48 by $0.04. BT Group PLC had a return on equity of 40.09% and a net margin of 7.14%. The company had revenue of $7.58 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $7.88 billion. On average, equities analysts anticipate that BT Group PLC will post $1.84 earnings per share for the current year.
The company also recently disclosed a semiannual dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, September 12th. Investors of record on Friday, August 11th will be issued a $0.6804 dividend. This represents a yield of 6.86%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, August 9th. BT Group PLC’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 86.54%.
TRADEMARK VIOLATION NOTICE: “BT Group PLC (NYSE:BT) Earns Media Impact Rating of 0.13” was first posted by StockNewsTimes and is the sole property of of StockNewsTimes. If you are viewing this report on another publication, it was stolen and reposted in violation of international trademark & copyright legislation. The correct version of this report can be viewed at https://stocknewstimes.com/2017/08/04/bt-group-plc-nysebt-earns-media-impact-rating-of-0-13.html.
About BT Group PLC
Receive News & Ratings for BT Group PLC Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for BT Group PLC and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter.
