Stokes Capital Advisors LLC Acquires 45,195 Shares of ONEOK, Inc. $OKE

Stokes Capital Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in shares of ONEOK, Inc. (NYSE:OKEFree Report) by 1,369.1% in the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 48,496 shares of the utilities provider’s stock after buying an additional 45,195 shares during the period. Stokes Capital Advisors LLC’s holdings in ONEOK were worth $4,384,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other hedge funds also recently modified their holdings of the stock. Legal & General Group Plc increased its stake in shares of ONEOK by 1.6% during the 3rd quarter. Legal & General Group Plc now owns 5,218,376 shares of the utilities provider’s stock worth $380,785,000 after purchasing an additional 80,683 shares during the last quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. grew its holdings in ONEOK by 1.4% during the third quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. now owns 1,232,011 shares of the utilities provider’s stock worth $89,910,000 after purchasing an additional 16,871 shares during the period. WBI Investments LLC grew its holdings in ONEOK by 221.5% during the third quarter. WBI Investments LLC now owns 35,768 shares of the utilities provider’s stock worth $2,610,000 after purchasing an additional 24,643 shares during the period. Coldstream Capital Management Inc. increased its position in ONEOK by 20.1% during the third quarter. Coldstream Capital Management Inc. now owns 46,899 shares of the utilities provider’s stock worth $3,422,000 after buying an additional 7,843 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Aberdeen Group plc increased its position in ONEOK by 46.0% during the fourth quarter. Aberdeen Group plc now owns 957,663 shares of the utilities provider’s stock worth $70,388,000 after buying an additional 301,654 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 69.13% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of analysts have recently issued reports on OKE shares. Scotiabank cut ONEOK from a “sector outperform” rating to a “sector perform” rating and cut their price objective for the company from $92.00 to $89.00 in a research report on Thursday, April 30th. Freedom Capital raised ONEOK from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 5th. Barclays increased their price target on ONEOK from $82.00 to $90.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Thursday, April 30th. Weiss Ratings raised shares of ONEOK from a “hold (c+)” rating to a “buy (b-)” rating in a research report on Monday, May 18th. Finally, Wall Street Zen upgraded shares of ONEOK from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 26th. Eight research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and ten have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $91.88.

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ONEOK Stock Up 2.4%

OKE stock opened at $89.40 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.37, a current ratio of 0.71 and a quick ratio of 0.56. The stock has a market capitalization of $56.34 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 15.94, a PEG ratio of 6.53 and a beta of 0.74. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $88.22 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $83.51. ONEOK, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $64.02 and a fifty-two week high of $96.07.

ONEOK (NYSE:OKEGet Free Report) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, April 28th. The utilities provider reported $1.23 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.30 by ($0.07). ONEOK had a net margin of 10.03% and a return on equity of 16.06%. The business had revenue of $9.62 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $8.23 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.04 EPS. ONEOK has set its FY 2026 guidance at 5.530-5.530 EPS. On average, equities analysts anticipate that ONEOK, Inc. will post 5.72 earnings per share for the current year.

ONEOK Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, May 15th. Shareholders of record on Monday, May 4th were issued a $1.07 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, May 4th. This represents a $4.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.8%. ONEOK’s payout ratio is currently 76.29%.

ONEOK Company Profile

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ONEOK, Inc (NYSE: OKE) is a publicly traded midstream energy company headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The company owns and operates a portfolio of natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL) pipelines, processing facilities, fractionators and storage and terminal assets. Its operations are focused on gathering, processing, transporting, fractionating and marketing NGLs and interstate natural gas, providing critical infrastructure that connects hydrocarbon production to refineries, petrochemical plants and other end markets.

ONEOK’s asset base includes pipeline systems and processing plants that move and condition natural gas, along with infrastructure for the transportation, storage and fractionation of NGLs such as ethane, propane and butane.

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