With 0.51 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.56 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $21.23 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $20.6079. The 52-week range on BUSE shows that it touched its highest point at $28.97 and its lowest point at $18.40 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $26.00. With its current market cap of 1.90 billion, BUSE has annualized dividend of $0.98 while the current yield stands at 4.64%. BUSE paid its most recent dividend on 1744848000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1744848000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.75.
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 BUSE was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.43%, but this was down by -2.18% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -13.52% while six-month performance fell -16.60%. The stock lost -6.47% in the past year, while it has lost -10.48% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BUSE yields 1.07 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.77. For the next quarter, that number is 0.61. This implies an EPS growth rate of -13.38% for this year and 61.71% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 90.01 million BUSE shares are outstanding with a float of 86.51 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 1.46 million, which was 162.0 higher than short shares on 1741910400. In addition to Mr. Van A. Dukeman CFA as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Ms. Amy L. Randolph serves as its Executive VP & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.41013 of BUSE’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 BUSE since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 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 BUSE analysts setting a high price target of 30.0 and a low target of 23.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 26.66667. Based on these targets, BUSE could surge 42.18% to reach the target high and rise by 9.0% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 26.38% 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 $2.02408 being high and $1.99489 being low. For BUSE, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.01435. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.69 and the low estimate is $0.63. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.67.
