With 0.56 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.22 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $47.93 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $47.135. The 52-week range on OZK shows that it touched its highest point at $52.36 and its lowest point at $37.43 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $51.88. With its current market cap of 5.36 billion, OZK has annualized dividend of $1.58 while the current yield stands at 3.35%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.17.
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 OZK was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -0.25%, but this was down by -1.99% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 13.62% while six-month performance rose 22.96%. The stock gained 5.00% in the past year, while it has lost -5.22% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for OZK yields 6.09 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.92. For the next quarter, that number is 1.45. This implies an EPS growth rate of 2.71% for this year and -1.86% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 6.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 12.64%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 113.45 million OZK shares are outstanding with a float of 107.79 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-29, short shares totaled 14.92 million, which was 1314.9999 higher than short shares on 1730332800. In addition to Mr. George G. Gleason II as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Paschall Brannon Hamblen serves as its President.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.96699 of OZK’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for OZK since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With OZK analysts setting a high price target of 65.0 and a low target of 38.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 51.625. Based on these targets, OZK could surge 37.62% to reach the target high and fall by -19.54% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 9.31% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $6.09901 being high and $5.99902 being low. For OZK, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.02902. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.44 and the low estimate is $1.27. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.38.
