Is Travelers Companies Inc. (TRV) positioned for future growth?

With 1.0 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 $260.1 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $255.29. The 52-week range on TRV shows that it touched its highest point at $269.55 and its lowest point at $157.33 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $264.76. With its current market cap of 58.21 billion, TRV has annualized dividend of $4.10 while the current yield stands at 1.60%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.63.

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 -3.17%, but this was up by 8.51% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 19.91% while six-month performance rose 19.83%. The stock gained 62.37% in the past year, while it has gained 34.61% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for TRV yields 19.50 with Next year EPS estimates of 21.14. For the next quarter, that number is 6.39. This implies an EPS growth rate of 43.36% for this year and 12.31% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 16.85% 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 226.05 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-09-30, short shares totaled 3.77 million, which was 166.0 higher than short shares on 1724976000. 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 0.86277 of TRV’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.