With 0.74 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.75 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $52.55 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $51.17. The 52-week range on HWC shows that it touched its highest point at $62.40 and its lowest point at $43.60 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $62.33. With its current market cap of 4.49 billion, HWC has annualized dividend of $1.65 while the current yield stands at 3.17%. HWC paid its most recent dividend on 1741132800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1749081600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.07.
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 HWC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.48%, but this was down by -0.69% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -12.31% while six-month performance rose 0.97%. The stock gained 11.45% in the past year, while it has lost -4.81% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HWC yields 5.42 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.80. For the next quarter, that number is 1.35. This implies an EPS growth rate of 5.04% for this year and 4.54% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 7.99% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 7.29%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 86.03 million HWC shares are outstanding with a float of 84.96 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 3.45 million, which was 401.0 higher than short shares on 1741910400. In addition to Mr. John M. Hairston as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Michael M. Achary CPA serves as its Senior EVP, CFO & Principal Accounting Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.88789004 of HWC’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 HWC since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 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 HWC analysts setting a high price target of 70.0 and a low target of 54.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 62.875. Based on these targets, HWC could surge 34.38% to reach the target high and rise by 3.67% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 20.7% 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 $5.26147 being high and $5.13119 being low. For HWC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.20134. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.45 and the low estimate is $1.33. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.38.
