With 1.49 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.32 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $44.19 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $42.98. 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 $48.44. With its current market cap of 4.99 billion, OZK has annualized dividend of $1.54 while the current yield stands at 3.50%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.16.
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 up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 10.06%, but this was up by 6.90% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 12.71% while six-month performance rose 0.16%. The stock gained 16.57% in the past year, while it has lost -11.76% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for OZK yields 6.02 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.20. For the next quarter, that number is 1.55. This implies an EPS growth rate of 3.69% for this year and 1.92% 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 2024-08-30, short shares totaled 15.69 million, which was 1383.0 higher than short shares on 1722384000. 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 0.91914004 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.
