With 2.65 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.8 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $13.37 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $13.005. The 52-week range on BANC shows that it touched its highest point at $18.08 and its lowest point at $11.52 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $17.00. With its current market cap of 2.22 billion, BANC has annualized dividend of $0.40 while the current yield stands at 3.05%. BANC paid its most recent dividend on 1741910400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741910400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.70.
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 BANC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.78%, but this was down by -9.52% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -18.05% while six-month performance fell -14.19%. The stock lost -6.88% in the past year, while it has lost -15.14% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BANC yields 0.65 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.65. For the next quarter, that number is 0.27. This implies an EPS growth rate of 132.02% for this year and 36.49% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 54.58% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 58.47%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 169.08 million BANC shares are outstanding with a float of 139.36 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 16.78 million, which was 1009.0 higher than short shares on 1741910400. In addition to Mr. Jared M. Wolff J.D. as the firm’s Vice Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. Joseph Kauder serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.99237 of BANC’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 BANC since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 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 BANC analysts setting a high price target of 20.0 and a low target of 15.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 17.1. Based on these targets, BANC could surge 52.44% to reach the target high and rise by 14.33% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 30.34% 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 $0.49195 being high and $0.43947 being low. For BANC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.46571. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.36 and the low estimate is $0.28. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.32.
