With 0.6 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.43 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $65.89 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $62.35. The 52-week range on AX shows that it touched its highest point at $88.46 and its lowest point at $44.10 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $82.50. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.26.
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 AX was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.44%, but this was up by 1.76% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -5.93% while six-month performance fell -2.28%. The stock gained 26.96% in the past year, while it has lost -6.23% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AX yields 7.44 with Next year EPS estimates of 7.60. For the next quarter, that number is 1.81. This implies an EPS growth rate of -4.49% for this year and 3.91% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 57.10 million AX shares are outstanding with a float of 54.53 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 3.41 million, which was 598.0 higher than short shares on 1741910400. In addition to Mr. Gregory Garrabrants C.F.A., J.D. as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Derrick K. Walsh CPA serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.84861 of AX’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 AX since 9 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 7 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 AX analysts setting a high price target of 88.0 and a low target of 80.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 82.83333. Based on these targets, AX could surge 34.35% to reach the target high and rise by 22.14% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 26.46% 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 $7.7242 being high and $7.67437 being low. For AX, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $7.6943.
