This trade activity should not be overlooked: Wesbanco, Inc (WSBC)

With 0.51 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.73 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $30.16 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $29.28. The 52-week range on WSBC shows that it touched its highest point at $37.36 and its lowest point at $25.56 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $37.88. With its current market cap of 2.86 billion, WSBC has annualized dividend of $1.46 while the current yield stands at 4.88%. WSBC paid its most recent dividend on 1741564800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741564800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.84.

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 WSBC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.27%, but this was down by -2.35% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -14.49% while six-month performance fell -4.47%. The stock gained 9.35% in the past year, while it has lost -8.02% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WSBC yields 1.53 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.88. For the next quarter, that number is 0.86. This implies an EPS growth rate of 43.47% for this year and 15.65% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 95.67 million WSBC shares are outstanding with a float of 93.54 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 1.77 million, which was 185.0 higher than short shares on 1741910400. In addition to Mr. Jeffrey H. Jackson as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Daniel K. Weiss Jr. serves as its Senior Executive VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.52691 of WSBC’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 WSBC since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 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 WSBC analysts setting a high price target of 43.0 and a low target of 34.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 37.875. Based on these targets, WSBC could surge 43.67% to reach the target high and rise by 13.6% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 26.55% 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 $2.17807 being high and $2.09777 being low. For WSBC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.14796. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.95 and the low estimate is $0.88. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.9.