Home Bancshares Inc (HOMB) is looking forward to a strong quarter

With 0.94 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.05 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $30.725 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $30.09. The 52-week range on HOMB shows that it touched its highest point at $32.90 and its lowest point at $22.38 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $33.00. With its current market cap of 6.02 billion, HOMB has annualized dividend of $0.75 while the current yield stands at 2.48%. HOMB paid its most recent dividend on 1731456000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731456000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.09.

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 HOMB was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.83%, but this was up by 6.62% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 8.29% while six-month performance rose 5.06%. The stock gained 21.94% in the past year, while it has gained 7.03% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HOMB yields 2.01 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.24. For the next quarter, that number is 0.54. This implies an EPS growth rate of 8.15% for this year and 3.17% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 4.40% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 3.10%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 198.88 million HOMB shares are outstanding with a float of 184.12 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 4.36 million, which was 219.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. John W. Allison as the firm’s Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Mr. Kevin D. Hester serves as its President & Chief Lending Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.69671994 of HOMB’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 HOMB since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 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 HOMB analysts setting a high price target of 35.0 and a low target of 31.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 32.83333. Based on these targets, HOMB could surge 15.55% to reach the target high and rise by 2.34% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 8.4% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.06991 being high and $1.98953 being low. For HOMB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.03977. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.56 and the low estimate is $0.51. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.54.