An analyst sees good growth prospects for U.S. Bancorp (USB)

With 11.18 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 8.08 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $48.35 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $47.67. The 52-week range on USB shows that it touched its highest point at $53.98 and its lowest point at $37.81 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $57.35. With its current market cap of 74.54 billion, USB has annualized dividend of $1.98 while the current yield stands at 4.14%. USB paid its most recent dividend on 1735603200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1735603200. 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 USB was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.63%, but this was down by -0.97% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -0.91% while six-month performance rose 6.46%. The stock gained 10.24% in the past year, while it has lost -0.10% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for USB yields 3.79 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.86. For the next quarter, that number is 0.98. This implies an EPS growth rate of 14.77% for this year and 11.67% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 12.03% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -1.86%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 1.56 billion USB shares are outstanding with a float of 1.56 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 22.52 million, which was 144.00001 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Andrew J. Cecere as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Ms. Gunjan Kedia serves as its President.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.80095 of USB’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

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Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for USB since 12 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 10 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 USB analysts setting a high price target of 65.0 and a low target of 51.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 57.14286. Based on these targets, USB could surge 36.04% to reach the target high and rise by 6.74% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 19.6% 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 $3.91103 being high and $3.71499 being low. For USB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.84242. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.13 and the low estimate is $1.04. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.09.

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