Somewhat Favorable Media Coverage Somewhat Unlikely to Affect Atlantica Yield PLC (ABY) Stock Price

News stories about Atlantica Yield PLC (NASDAQ:ABY) have trended somewhat positive recently, Accern reports. The research group identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Atlantica Yield PLC earned a media sentiment score of 0.18 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned news headlines about the utilities provider an impact score of 46.6472644926614 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company’s share price in the near term.

Atlantica Yield PLC (NASDAQ ABY) opened at 20.95 on Friday. The stock has a market cap of $2.10 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 67.58 and a beta of 1.12. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $21.02 and a 200-day moving average price of $20.87. Atlantica Yield PLC has a one year low of $16.55 and a one year high of $22.87.

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, September 15th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, August 31st will be issued a $0.26 dividend. This is a positive change from Atlantica Yield PLC’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.25. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, August 29th. This represents a $1.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.96%. Atlantica Yield PLC’s dividend payout ratio is 333.33%.

A number of equities research analysts have recently commented on ABY shares. ValuEngine raised shares of Atlantica Yield PLC from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, June 2nd. TheStreet raised shares of Atlantica Yield PLC from a “d” rating to a “c-” rating in a research note on Monday, June 12th. Zacks Investment Research upgraded Atlantica Yield PLC from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, April 21st. Finally, BidaskClub upgraded Atlantica Yield PLC from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Tuesday, June 27th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have issued a hold rating, three have issued a buy rating and two have issued a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. The company has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $22.80.

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Atlantica Yield PLC Company Profile

Atlantica Yield plc, formerly Abengoa Yield plc, is a total return company. The Company owns, manages, and acquires renewable energy, conventional power, electric transmission lines and water assets, focused on North America (the United States and Mexico), South America (Peru, Chile, Brazil and Uruguay) and Europe, Middle East and Africa (Spain, Algeria and South Africa).