Perhaps timely catching First Interstate BancSystem Inc (FIBK) would be a good idea

With 0.58 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.62 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $29.36 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $28.82. The 52-week range on FIBK shows that it touched its highest point at $36.77 and its lowest point at $24.16 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $35.50. With its current market cap of 3.04 billion, FIBK has annualized dividend of $1.88 while the current yield stands at 6.46%. FIBK paid its most recent dividend on 1739145600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1739145600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.79.

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 FIBK was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.64%, but this was down by -4.09% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -10.54% while six-month performance fell -4.34%. The stock gained 10.44% in the past year, while it has lost -10.38% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FIBK yields 2.19 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.76. For the next quarter, that number is 0.55. This implies an EPS growth rate of 13.19% for this year and 11.42% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 104.59 million FIBK shares are outstanding with a float of 89.96 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 2.72 million, which was 260.99999 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Ms. Marcy D. Mutch CPA as the firm’s Executive VP & CFO, Ms. Kristina R. Robbins serves as its Executive VP & COO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.82422996 of FIBK’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 FIBK since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 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 FIBK analysts setting a high price target of 42.0 and a low target of 30.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 35.5. Based on these targets, FIBK could surge 44.33% to reach the target high and rise by 3.09% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 21.99% 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 $2.2249 being high and $2.03143 being low. For FIBK, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.12817. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.64 and the low estimate is $0.55. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.6.