With 1.86 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.43 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Specialty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $24.265 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $23.59. The 52-week range on MTG shows that it touched its highest point at $26.56 and its lowest point at $19.81 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $26.67. With its current market cap of 5.87 billion, MTG has annualized dividend of $0.51 while the current yield stands at 2.09%. MTG paid its most recent dividend on 1739836800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1739836800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.90.
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 MTG was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -0.41%, but this was up by 2.76% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -1.47% while six-month performance fell -8.30%. The stock gained 23.60% in the past year, while it has gained 2.07% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for MTG yields 2.89 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.96. For the next quarter, that number is 0.69. This implies an EPS growth rate of -3.19% for this year and 5.25% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 4.59% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 9.32%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 248.45 million MTG shares are outstanding with a float of 237.85 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 8.02 million, which was 330.99998 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Timothy James Mattke CPA as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Salvatore Antonino Miosi serves as its President & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.0138099 of MTG’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 MTG since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 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 MTG analysts setting a high price target of 30.0 and a low target of 25.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 26.66667. Based on these targets, MTG could surge 23.97% to reach the target high and rise by 3.31% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 10.19% 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 $2.86875 being high and $2.84869 being low. For MTG, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.85872.
