Century Communities (CCS) Stock Price, News & Analysis

2 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Century Communities in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" CCS shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CCS, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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2 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Century Communities' stock. Their CCS share price targets range from $82.00 to $110.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $96.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 20.3% from the stock's current price.
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Century Communities' stock was trading at $91.14 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, CCS stock has decreased by 12.5% and is now trading at $79.77.
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Century Communities saw a drop in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,330,000 shares, a drop of 33.8% from the March 15th total of 2,010,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 325,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.1 days. Approximately 4.7% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2024.
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Century Communities will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, April 24th at 5:00 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 412-317-0088 with passcode "5208502".

Century Communities, Inc. (NYSE:CCS) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, January, 31st. The construction company reported $2.93 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.27 by $0.66. The construction company earned $1.21 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $915.91 million. Century Communities had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.57% and a net margin of 7.02%.

Century Communities declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 7th. Investors of record on Wednesday, February 28th will be paid a dividend of $0.26 per share on Wednesday, March 13th. This represents a $1.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.30%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, February 27th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.23.
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Century Communities (NYSE:CCS) pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.29%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 12.92%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CCS will have a dividend payout ratio of 8.98% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Century Communities (NYSE:CCS) stock in their portfolio include Amplify Inflation Fighter ETF (IWIN), Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Discretionary ETF (PSCD), SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB), Cambria Value and Momentum ETF (VAMO), Invesco S&P SmallCap Value with Momentum ETF (XSVM), iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF (ITB), WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Fund (EES) and First Trust Small Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund (FYT).

74 employees have rated Century Communities Chief Executive Officer Dale Francescon and Robert Francescon on Glassdoor.com. Dale Francescon and Robert Francescon has an approval rating of 63% among the company's employees. This puts Dale Francescon and Robert Francescon in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Century Communities' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Bridge City Capital LLC (0.11%), Ausbil Investment Management Ltd (0.06%), Park Avenue Securities LLC (0.01%) and GAMMA Investing LLC (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include David L Messenger, John Scott Dixon and Robert J Francescon.
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Shares of CCS stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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