Diageo (DEO) Stock Forecast, Price & News

10 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Diageo in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" DEO shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in DEO, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Diageo's stock was trading at $178.19 at the start of the year. Since then, DEO shares have increased by 0.3% and is now trading at $178.81.
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Diageo saw a increase in short interest during the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 1,780,000 shares, an increase of 6.0% from the April 15th total of 1,680,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 391,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.5 days. Approximately 0.3% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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Diageo announced a semi-annual dividend on Tuesday, February 28th. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 3rd will be paid a dividend of $1.5187 per share on Tuesday, April 18th. This represents a yield of 2.06%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 2nd. This is a boost from the stock's previous semi-annual dividend of $1.43.
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Diageo (NYSE:DEO) pays an annual dividend of $3.04 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.71%.
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724 employees have rated Diageo Chief Executive Officer Ivan Menezes on Glassdoor.com. Ivan Menezes has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Ivan Menezes in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Diageo trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "DEO."

Diageo's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Bank of America Corp DE (0.92%), FMR LLC (0.61%), Clearbridge Investments LLC (0.42%), UBS Group AG (0.37%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.36%) and London Co. of Virginia (0.30%).

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One share of DEO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $178.81.

Diageo (NYSE:DEO) has a market capitalization of $100.83 billion and generates $19.43 billion in revenue each year.

The company employs 28,137 workers across the globe.

Diageo's mailing address is LAKESIDE DRIVE PARK ROYAL, LONDON X0, NW10 7HQ. The official website for the company is www.diageo.com. The company can be reached via phone at 442079479100, via email at investor.relations@diageo.com, or via fax at 44-20-8978-8501.