State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) stock jumped 1.60% on Thursday to $72.39 against a previous-day closing price of $71.25. With 2.5 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.58 million shares. During the session, the Asset Management company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $72.49 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $71.66. The 52-week range on STT shows that it touched its highest point at $94.74 and its lowest point at $58.62 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $75.86. With its current market cap of 22.85 billion, STT has annualized dividend of $2.76 while the current yield stands at 3.81%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.59.
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Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of STT was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.14%, but this was up by 4.07% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -1.11% while six-month performance fell -1.78%. The stock gained 0.36% in the past year, while it has lost -6.68% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for STT yields 7.41 with Next year EPS estimates of 7.57. For the next quarter, that number is 1.80. This implies an EPS growth rate of 0.00% for this year and 3.51% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 4.50% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 4.20%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 329.38 million STT shares are outstanding with a float of 317.39 million shares on hand for trading. On Aug 30, 2023, short shares totaled 4.76 million, which was 1.49% higher than short shares on Jul 30, 2023. In addition to Mr. Ronald Philip O’Hanley as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Louis D. Maiuri serves as its Pres, COO & Head of Investment Services.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 93.12% of STT’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have majority control over the company. Other institutions hold 53.33% of STT, in contrast to 35.18% held by mutual funds. Shares owned by individuals account for 2.87%. As the largest shareholder in STT with 11.66% of the stake, The Vanguard Group, Inc. holds 38,976,385 shares worth 38,976,385. A second-largest stockholder of STT, Dodge & Cox, holds 21,725,474 shares, controlling over 6.50% of the firm’s shares. BlackRock Fund Advisors is the third largest shareholder in STT, holding 16,774,494 shares or 5.02% stake. With a 4.68% stake in STT, the Dodge & Cox Stock Fund is the largest stakeholder. A total of 15,653,400 shares are owned by the mutual fund manager. The Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF, which owns about 2.96% of STT stock, is the second-largest Mutual Fund holder. It holds 9,897,512 shares valued at 716.98 million. Vanguard 500 Index Fund holds 2.40% of the stake in STT, owning 8,004,289 shares worth 579.83 million.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for STT since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With STT analysts setting a high price target of $87.00 and a low target of $65.00, the average target price over the next 12 months is $75.44. Based on these targets, STT could surge 20.18% to reach the target high and fall by -10.21% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 4.21% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded STT stock several times over the past three months with 3 Buys and 10 Sells. In these transactions, 9,124 shares were bought while 30,793 shares were sold. The number of buy transactions has increased to 43 while that of sell transactions has risen to 50 over the past year. The total number of shares bought during that period was 544,326 while 260,601 shares were sold.
