A Look at Bank OZK (OZK) Shares in the Recent Past Indicates Growth

With 0.88 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.33 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $40.1 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $39.26. The 52-week range on OZK shows that it touched its highest point at $52.36 and its lowest point at $34.76 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $48.60. With its current market cap of 4.53 billion, OZK has annualized dividend of $1.54 while the current yield stands at 3.85%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.17.

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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 OZK was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.51%, but this was down by -1.67% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 3.47% while six-month performance fell -7.31%. The stock gained 1.86% in the past year, while it has lost -19.83% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for OZK yields 6.02 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.22. For the next quarter, that number is 1.55. This implies an EPS growth rate of 3.63% for this year and 2.22% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 12.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 12.64%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 113.15 million OZK shares are outstanding with a float of 106.25 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-08-15, short shares totaled 14.82 million, which was 1305.9999999999998 higher than short shares on 1721001600. In addition to Mr. George G. Gleason II as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Paschall Brannon Hamblen serves as its President.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.91912 of OZK’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 OZK since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.