Eaton Vance Declares Healthy 1Q Earnings Performance

Stock Market Today|February 22, 2012 10:45 AM| By Larry Davidson

Eaton Vance Corp.’s (NYSE:EV) reported on Wednesday that its fiscal first-quarter earnings climbed up 26% courtesy to increase in investments, while the asset manager also announced drops of client cash eased from the earlier quarter.

Mutual fund managers like Eaton Vance have been creating funds to provide more safety in unstable markets in an attempt to help stop the flow of investors moving out of usual funds that invest in stocks. On Wednesday, the firm announced that its assets under management remained at $191.71 billion as of January 31st, approximately flat from a year ago even though higher from $188.2 billion at the conclusion of October.

Net outflows summed up $1.12 billion, against the net inflows of $1.85 billion a year ago and net outflows of $2.73 billion a quarter ago. Eaton Vance Corp. (NYSE:EV) reports on February 22, 2012 increased 0.71% to the trading price of $28.37. Its fifty two week range was $20.07-$34.09. The total market capitalization remained $3.28 billion. The overall volume in the last trading session was 0.112 million shares.

The stock price of EV is moving forward from its 20 days moving average with 6.71% and remote positively from 50 days moving average with 15.10%. EV current year earnings per share experienced an addition with 25.25% while its current quarter performance remained 20.54%. Company’s beta coefficient included 1.65. Beta factors measures the amount of market risk associated with market trade.

EV is ahead its 52 week low with 46.46% and lagging behind from its 52 week high price with -13.22%. EV last month stock price volatility remained 2.00%. In its share capital EV has 115.62 million outstanding shares among them 112.08 million shares have been floated in market exchange. EV stock institutional ownership remained 80.06% while insider ownership included 2.86%.

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