With 0.18 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.23 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $67.12 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $65.73. The 52-week range on BANR shows that it touched its highest point at $78.05 and its lowest point at $42.00 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $74.00. With its current market cap of 2.30 billion, BANR has annualized dividend of $1.92 while the current yield stands at 2.87%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.06.
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 BANR was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.09%, but this was down by -11.20% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 13.10% while six-month performance rose 33.31%. The stock gained 29.39% in the past year, while it has gained 0.09% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BANR yields 4.78 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.93. For the next quarter, that number is 1.21. This implies an EPS growth rate of -10.82% for this year and 3.65% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 7.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 5.13%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 34.46 million BANR shares are outstanding with a float of 33.62 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 0.89 million, which was 257.99999 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Mark J. Grescovich as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Robert G. Butterfield serves as its Executive VP, CFO & Treasurer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.92864 of BANR’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 BANR since 4 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, 1 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 BANR analysts setting a high price target of 82.0 and a low target of 65.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 74.0. Based on these targets, BANR could surge 22.7% to reach the target high and fall by -2.74% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 10.73% 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 $4.86047 being high and $4.67541 being low. For BANR, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.75333.
