Does PNC Financial Services Group Inc (PNC) offer a good opportunity for investors?

With 1.45 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.85 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $184.3099 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $182.0902. The 52-week range on PNC shows that it touched its highest point at $187.78 and its lowest point at $109.40 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $189.00. With its current market cap of 72.87 billion, PNC has annualized dividend of $6.25 while the current yield stands at 3.41%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.13.

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 PNC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.07%, but this was up by 2.33% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 20.66% while six-month performance rose 14.60%. The stock gained 50.77% in the past year, while it has gained 18.39% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PNC yields 11.93 with Next year EPS estimates of 14.82. For the next quarter, that number is 3.28. This implies an EPS growth rate of 1.95% for this year and 13.67% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 6.92% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 3.61%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 398.03 million PNC shares are outstanding with a float of 395.89 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-09-13, short shares totaled 5.5 million, which was 138.0 higher than short shares on 1723680000. In addition to Mr. William S. Demchak as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Michael Patrick Lyons serves as its President and Head of Corporate & Institutional Banking.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.84693 of PNC’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 PNC 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.