With 0.56 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.32 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $79.99 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $77.25. The 52-week range on BOH shows that it touched its highest point at $81.39 and its lowest point at $51.18 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $65.00. With its current market cap of 3.08 billion, BOH has annualized dividend of $2.80 while the current yield stands at 3.61%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.03.
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 BOH was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 7.42%, but this was up by 21.37% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 17.94% while six-month performance rose 30.49%. The stock gained 45.52% in the past year, while it has gained 7.08% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BOH yields 3.33 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.64. For the next quarter, that number is 0.86. This implies an EPS growth rate of -18.78% for this year and 1.17% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 2.66% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -4.55%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 39.75 million BOH shares are outstanding with a float of 38.98 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-15, short shares totaled 4.4 million, which was 1107.0 higher than short shares on 1726185600. In addition to Mr. Peter S. Ho as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Dean Y. Shigemura serves as its Vice Chair & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.78008 of BOH’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 BOH since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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 BOH analysts setting a high price target of 74.0 and a low target of 55.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 65.0. Based on these targets, BOH could drop -4.63% to reach the target high and fall by -29.11% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -16.23% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.64908 being high and $3.53664 being low. For BOH, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.59797. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.86. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.91 and the low estimate is $0.74. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.82.
