With 29.37 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 43.98 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $2.4 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $2.34. The 52-week range on BBD shows that it touched its highest point at $2.81 and its lowest point at $1.75 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $3.90. With its current market cap of 12.59 billion, BBD has annualized dividend of $0.04 while the current yield stands at 1.68%. BBD paid its most recent dividend on 1743638400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1746489600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.65.
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 BBD was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 8.18%, but this was up by 5.50% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 25.47% while six-month performance fell -5.89%. The stock lost -1.82% in the past year, while it has gained 30.89% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BBD yields 0.30 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.42. For the next quarter, that number is 0.09. This implies an EPS growth rate of 14.74% for this year and 16.31% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 13.95% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -10.85%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 5.29 billion BBD shares are outstanding with a float of 5.29 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 139.46 million, which was 132.00001 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Marcelo de Araujo Noronha as the firm’s CEO & Member of Executive Board, Mr. Cassiano Ricardo Scarpelli serves as its CFO, Executive VP of Director & Member of Executive Board.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.20357001 of BBD’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 BBD since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 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 BBD analysts setting a high price target of 3.9 and a low target of 2.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 2.74. Based on these targets, BBD could surge 63.87% to reach the target high and fall by -15.97% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 15.13% 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 $2.01355 being high and $1.7259 being low. For BBD, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.89849. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.09 and the low estimate is $0.08. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.09.
