With 0.51 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.5 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $81.185 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $79.31. The 52-week range on PB shows that it touched its highest point at $86.75 and its lowest point at $57.16 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $89.85. With its current market cap of 7.65 billion, PB has annualized dividend of $2.26 while the current yield stands at 2.81%. PB paid its most recent dividend on 1734048000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741910400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.95.
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 PB was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.46%, but this was up by 6.48% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 8.39% while six-month performance rose 10.01%. The stock gained 19.88% in the past year, while it has gained 6.60% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PB yields 5.05 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.54. For the next quarter, that number is 1.35. This implies an EPS growth rate of 15.56% for this year and 12.06% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 13.53% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 2.21%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 95.28 million PB shares are outstanding with a float of 91.22 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 1.37 million, which was 144.00001 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. David E. Zalman as the firm’s Senior Chairman & CEO, Mr. H. E. Timanus Jr. serves as its Chairman of the Board.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.83447 of PB’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 PB since 8 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 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 PB analysts setting a high price target of 102.0 and a low target of 80.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 89.25. Based on these targets, PB could surge 26.99% to reach the target high and fall by -0.4% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 11.12% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $5.06839 being high and $4.87957 being low. For PB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.0187. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.48 and the low estimate is $1.38. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.43.
