With 2.86 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.67 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $43.15 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $40.99. The 52-week range on AUB shows that it touched its highest point at $42.50 and its lowest point at $29.24 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $43.25. With its current market cap of 3.84 billion, AUB has annualized dividend of $1.28 while the current yield stands at 2.97%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.88.
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 AUB was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 12.49%, but this was up by 18.74% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 17.20% while six-month performance rose 27.67%. The stock gained 35.87% in the past year, while it has gained 18.06% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AUB yields 2.41 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.34. For the next quarter, that number is 0.79. This implies an EPS growth rate of 0.00% for this year and 13.33% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 2.69%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 89.11 million AUB shares are outstanding with a float of 88.15 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-15, short shares totaled 3.06 million, which was 340.99999999999994 higher than short shares on 1726185600. In addition to Mr. John C. Asbury as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Robert Michael Gorman serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.75615 of AUB’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 AUB since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With AUB analysts setting a high price target of 46.0 and a low target of 41.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 43.25. Based on these targets, AUB could surge 6.63% to reach the target high and fall by -4.96% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 0.25% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.0107 being high and $2.87247 being low. For AUB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.95. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.64. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.81 and the low estimate is $0.73. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.75.
