With 0.21 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.29 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $52.78 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $51.8025. The 52-week range on WSFS shows that it touched its highest point at $62.75 and its lowest point at $40.19 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $61.80. With its current market cap of 3.09 billion, WSFS has annualized dividend of $0.60 while the current yield stands at 1.14%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.08.
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 WSFS was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.20%, but this was down by -11.86% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 7.45% while six-month performance rose 11.94%. The stock gained 16.33% in the past year, while it has lost -1.20% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WSFS yields 4.38 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.26. For the next quarter, that number is 0.97. This implies an EPS growth rate of -6.34% for this year and 0.00% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 12.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 0.97%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 59.03 million WSFS shares are outstanding with a float of 58.23 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 1.52 million, which was 258.99999 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Rodger Levenson as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. Arthur J. Bacci serves as its Executive VP & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.91467005 of WSFS’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 WSFS since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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 WSFS analysts setting a high price target of 68.0 and a low target of 53.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 61.8. Based on these targets, WSFS could surge 29.55% to reach the target high and rise by 0.97% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 17.74% 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. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $4.35149 being high and $4.18183 being low. For WSFS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.26167.
