With 3.32 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 3.98 million shares. The 52-week range on AGI shows that it touched its highest point at $31.00 and its lowest point at $15.01 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $33.99. With its current market cap of 11.19 billion, AGI has annualized dividend of $0.10 while the current yield stands at 0.38%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.62.
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 AGI was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.42%, but this was up by 8.61% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 19.60% while six-month performance rose 32.32%. The stock gained 74.26% in the past year, while it has gained 44.31% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AGI yields 0.62 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.50. For the next quarter, that number is 0.30. This implies an EPS growth rate of 53.46% for this year and 20.76% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 23.80% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 23.11%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 420.51 million AGI shares are outstanding with a float of 418.94 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for AGI since 8 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 7 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.
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 $0.8237 being high and $0.76486 being low. For AGI, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.79428.
