[Business Wire] – Prudential Financial, Inc. will release its fourth quarter 2015 earnings on Wednesday, February 10, 2016, after the market closes. The earnings news release, the financial supplement and related materials will be posted on the company’s Investor Relations website at: http://www.investor.prudential.com. Read more on this. Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU) , with a current value of $34.47B, opened at $78.06. Looking at today’s trading action, the company’s one day range from $76.76 to $78.29 with a one year range of $73.19 to $92.60. Priced at 7.67x this year’s forecasted earnings, PRU shares are relatively inexpensive compared to the industry’s 14.20x forward p/e ratio. The company pays shareholders $2.80 per share in dividend income per year, for a current yield of 3.44%. Consensus earnings for the current quarter by the 19 sell-side analysts covering the stock is an estimate of $2.30 per share, which would be $0.18 better than the year-ago quarter and a $0.11 sequential decrease. In looking at the bigger picture, the full-year EPS estimate of $10.37 would be a $1.16 improvement when compared to the previous year’s annual results. The quarterly earnings estimate is based on a consensus revenue forecast of the current quarter of $11.54 Billion. If realized, that would be a 27.10% decrease over the year-ago quarter. More recently, Deutsche Bank upgraded PRU from Hold to Buy (Sep 8, 2015). Previously, Piper Jaffray Initiated PRU at to Overweight. Given all the information above, we should disclose to readers that the average price target is $97.50, which is 24.90% above than it opened this morning. See more in (NYSE:PRU) Similar Articles: Company Update: Prudential Financial Inc (NYSE:PRU) – Prudential Financial To Announce Third Quarter 2015 Earnings; Schedules Conference Call Stock Update (NYSE:PRU): Prudential Financial, Inc. Schedules Conference Call to Discuss 2016 Financial Outlook Market Update: Prudential Financial Inc (NYSE:PRU) – Prudential Capital Group provided more than $5.3 billion in financing to clients in first half of 2015