OTTER TAIL CORPORATION
OTTER TAIL CORPORATION (OTTR) has a dated report snapshot, but its current priced-in claim is temporarily suppressed because the live engine record is unavailable or has changed.
- Otter Tail looks like a sleepy utility but earns like something better. At $87.56 the price pays about 12x company-wide operating income, a level so low it sits below what even a 5%-a-year decline in operating profit would warrant, despite a roughly 26% operating margin. - The methods that anchor to earnings and book value mostly sit above the price (Relative Valuation $129, EV/EBITDA Relative $125, Two-Stage Excess Return $90, Residual Income $92), which is the disconnect: a utility-plus-plas
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334 institutional managers reported holding OTTR in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 69% of the company; the top 10 hold 44%. 22 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 5.1M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 12% of shares outstanding (21.4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
OTTR's share count grew 1% over the past five years even with $126k spent on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 8 years running, raised 7 years straight; the current rate is $2.10 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $227.12M in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at OTTR over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 15 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
OTTR's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-03 | +10.7% | -17.1% |
| 2023-11-04 | +14.0% | +1.3% |
| 2024-02-15 | -11.4% | -9.2% |
| 2024-05-09 | +2.3% | -5.0% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
OTTR's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-18 (items 1.01); 2026-06-05 (items 2.03); 2026-05-29 (items 1.01); 2026-05-15 (items 8.01); 2026-05-05 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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