With 0.29 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.36 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $69.63 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $68.46. The 52-week range on BOH shows that it touched its highest point at $82.70 and its lowest point at $54.50 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $72.17. With its current market cap of 2.76 billion, BOH has annualized dividend of $2.80 while the current yield stands at 4.04%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.03.
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 BOH was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.70%, but this was down by -9.29% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 10.28% while six-month performance rose 20.06%. The stock lost -1.51% in the past year, while it has lost -2.70% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BOH yields 3.33 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.65. For the next quarter, that number is 0.84. This implies an EPS growth rate of -18.87% for this year and 1.67% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 4.33% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -4.55%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 39.75 million BOH shares are outstanding with a float of 38.98 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 4.39 million, which was 1104.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Peter S. Ho as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Dean Y. Shigemura CPA serves as its Vice Chair & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.80461 of BOH’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 BOH since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 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 BOH analysts setting a high price target of 90.0 and a low target of 55.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 72.16667. Based on these targets, BOH could surge 29.83% to reach the target high and fall by -20.66% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 4.11% 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 $3.63674 being high and $3.52469 being low. For BOH, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.58581.
