Top investors say Amerant Bancorp Inc (AMTB) ticks everything they need

With 0.19 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.25 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $21.48 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $20.785. The 52-week range on AMTB shows that it touched its highest point at $27.00 and its lowest point at $18.54 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $27.60. With its current market cap of 887.65 million, AMTB has annualized dividend of $0.36 while the current yield stands at 1.71%. AMTB paid its most recent dividend on 1731542400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731542400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.02.

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 AMTB was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -5.93%, but this was down by -17.69% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 5.82% while six-month performance fell -9.53%. The stock lost -13.14% in the past year, while it has lost -5.93% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AMTB yields -1.48 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.05. For the next quarter, that number is 0.32. This implies an EPS growth rate of -38.99% for this year and 74.44% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 42.10 million AMTB shares are outstanding with a float of 35.27 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 1.04 million, which was 246.99999999999997 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Gerald Paul Plush C.M.A., CPA as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Ms. Sharymar Calderon Yepez CPA serves as its Senior EVP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.65805 of AMTB’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 AMTB 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 AMTB analysts setting a high price target of 33.0 and a low target of 22.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 27.6. Based on these targets, AMTB could surge 56.55% to reach the target high and rise by 4.36% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 30.93% 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 $1.21094 being high and $1.10523 being low. For AMTB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.1725.