With 5.37 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 9.34 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $21.0955 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $20.765. The 52-week range on RF shows that it touched its highest point at $27.96 and its lowest point at $17.72 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $23.45. With its current market cap of 19.06 billion, RF has annualized dividend of $0.99 while the current yield stands at 4.70%. RF paid its most recent dividend on 1740960000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1748822400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.98.
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 RF was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.80%, but this was down by -4.41% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -14.57% while six-month performance fell -11.81%. The stock gained 9.24% in the past year, while it has lost -10.50% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for RF yields 2.07 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.46. For the next quarter, that number is 0.56. This implies an EPS growth rate of 5.80% for this year and 9.78% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.31% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 5.13%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 905.47 million RF shares are outstanding with a float of 902.16 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 45.27 million, which was 504.0 higher than short shares on 1741910400. In addition to Mr. John M. Turner Jr. as the firm’s President, CEO & Chairman, Mr. David Jackson Turner Jr. serves as its Senior EVP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.83163 of RF’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 RF since 16 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 9 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 7 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 RF analysts setting a high price target of 26.0 and a low target of 21.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 23.55. Based on these targets, RF could surge 23.52% to reach the target high and fall by -0.24% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 11.88% 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 $2.04633 being high and $1.90017 being low. For RF, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.0171. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.6 and the low estimate is $0.53. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.57.
