With 0.76 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.6 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $18.79 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $18.255. The 52-week range on PFS shows that it touched its highest point at $22.24 and its lowest point at $13.07 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $23.17. With its current market cap of 2.42 billion, PFS has annualized dividend of $0.96 while the current yield stands at 5.17%. PFS paid its most recent dividend on 1731628800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731628800. 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 PFS was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.16%, but this was down by -1.64% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -3.93% while six-month performance fell -1.54%. The stock gained 3.34% in the past year, while it has lost -1.64% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PFS yields 1.04 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.32. For the next quarter, that number is 0.47. This implies an EPS growth rate of 12.67% for this year and 12.07% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 130.49 million PFS shares are outstanding with a float of 116.00 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 3.07 million, which was 235.0 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. Christopher P. Martin as the firm’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Anthony J. Labozzetta serves as its President, CEO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.69315004 of PFS’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 PFS since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 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 PFS analysts setting a high price target of 25.0 and a low target of 21.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 23.16667. Based on these targets, PFS could surge 34.7% to reach the target high and rise by 13.15% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 24.82% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.95447 being high and $1.76206 being low. For PFS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.86333. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.51 and the low estimate is $0.49. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.5.