StockNews.com upgraded shares of Fortis (NYSE:FTS – Free Report) from a sell rating to a hold rating in a research note released on Friday morning.
Fortis Trading Up 0.2 %
NYSE:FTS opened at $40.57 on Friday. Fortis has a twelve month low of $36.30 and a twelve month high of $43.78. The company has a quick ratio of 0.52, a current ratio of 0.60 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.24. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $39.66 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $39.60. The company has a market cap of $20.09 billion, a P/E ratio of 17.49, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.89 and a beta of 0.45.
Fortis (NYSE:FTS – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May 1st. The utilities provider reported $0.69 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.65 by $0.04. Fortis had a return on equity of 7.02% and a net margin of 13.66%. The company had revenue of $2.31 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.43 billion. As a group, analysts expect that Fortis will post 2.33 EPS for the current fiscal year.
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About Fortis
Fortis Inc operates as an electric and gas utility company in Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean countries. It generates, transmits, and distributes electricity to approximately 447,000 retail customers in southeastern Arizona; and 103,000 retail customers in Arizona's Mohave and Santa Cruz counties with an aggregate capacity of 3,408 megawatts (MW), including 68 MW of solar capacity and 250 MV of wind capacity.
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