This trade activity should not be overlooked: Travelers Companies Inc. (TRV)

With 1.03 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.18 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Property & Casualty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $234.46 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $231.42. The 52-week range on TRV shows that it touched its highest point at $243.48 and its lowest point at $157.33 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $229.41. With its current market cap of 53.18 billion, TRV has annualized dividend of $4.10 while the current yield stands at 1.76%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.64.

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 TRV was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.17%, but this was up by 0.81% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 15.57% while six-month performance rose 2.10%. The stock gained 44.98% in the past year, while it has gained 22.47% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for TRV yields 15.81 with Next year EPS estimates of 20.62. For the next quarter, that number is 3.81. This implies an EPS growth rate of 32.43% for this year and 18.59% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 16.40% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 6.62%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 228.20 million TRV shares are outstanding with a float of 226.96 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-09-13, short shares totaled 3.62 million, which was 159.0 higher than short shares on 1723680000. In addition to Mr. Alan David Schnitzer as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Daniel Stephen Frey serves as its Executive VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.85885 of TRV’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 TRV 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.