Cousins Properties (NYSE:CUZ) Releases FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Cousins Properties (NYSE:CUZ) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided EPS guidance of 2.730-2.830 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 2.730. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

Cousins Properties Trading Up 1.8 %

Shares of CUZ opened at $31.22 on Friday. Cousins Properties has a fifty-two week low of $21.58 and a fifty-two week high of $32.55. The firm has a market cap of $4.94 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 94.61, a PEG ratio of 3.94 and a beta of 1.29. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $30.35 and a 200-day moving average price of $29.59. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.60, a quick ratio of 1.17 and a current ratio of 1.17.

Cousins Properties (NYSE:CUZ) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 6th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.69 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.07 by $0.62. Cousins Properties had a return on equity of 1.14% and a net margin of 6.17%. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that Cousins Properties will post 2.68 earnings per share for the current year.

Cousins Properties Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, January 14th. Investors of record on Friday, January 3rd were paid a $0.32 dividend. This represents a $1.28 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.10%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, January 3rd. Cousins Properties’s payout ratio is 387.88%.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

CUZ has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. StockNews.com lowered shares of Cousins Properties from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Thursday, January 9th. KeyCorp upgraded Cousins Properties from a “sector weight” rating to an “overweight” rating and set a $34.00 price target on the stock in a report on Tuesday, December 17th. Wells Fargo & Company lifted their price objective on Cousins Properties from $31.00 to $34.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Monday, November 4th. Mizuho upgraded Cousins Properties from an “underperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and upped their target price for the company from $22.00 to $30.00 in a report on Tuesday, January 7th. Finally, Barclays dropped their price target on Cousins Properties from $36.00 to $35.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, February 3rd. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have given a hold rating and six have assigned a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $33.11.

About Cousins Properties

Cousins Properties Incorporated ("Cousins") is a fully integrated, self-administered, and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company, based in Atlanta and acting through its operating partnership, Cousins Properties LP, primarily invests in Class A office buildings located in high-growth Sun Belt markets.