This trade activity should not be overlooked: UMB Financial Corp. (UMBF)

With 0.9 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.44 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $108.72 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $106.38. The 52-week range on UMBF shows that it touched its highest point at $109.42 and its lowest point at $57.91 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $116.33. With its current market cap of 5.20 billion, UMBF has annualized dividend of $1.56 while the current yield stands at 1.46%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.79.

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 UMBF was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.55%, but this was up by 8.83% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 34.11% while six-month performance rose 28.72%. The stock gained 74.09% in the past year, while it has gained 27.77% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for UMBF yields 7.75 with Next year EPS estimates of 8.96. For the next quarter, that number is 2.20. This implies an EPS growth rate of 8.11% for this year and 1.87% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 48.55 million UMBF shares are outstanding with a float of 45.80 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-08-30, short shares totaled 3.06 million, which was 628.0000500000001 higher than short shares on 1722384000. In addition to Mr. J. Mariner Kemper as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. James D. Rine serves as its President & Vice Chairman.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 1.0245401 of UMBF’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 UMBF 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.