With 0.68 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.68 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Reinsurance company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $18.27 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $17.685. The 52-week range on HG shows that it touched its highest point at $20.71 and its lowest point at $12.44 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $23.00. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.94.
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 HG was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.21%, but this was down by -2.16% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -5.07% while six-month performance rose 11.96%. The stock gained 21.07% in the past year, while it has gained 21.47% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HG yields 4.62 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.70. For the next quarter, that number is 0.49. This implies an EPS growth rate of 53.51% for this year and -1.13% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 56.04 million HG shares are outstanding with a float of 54.43 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 1.19 million, which was 117.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Ms. Giuseppina Carmela Albo as the firm’s CEO & Director, Ms. Gemma Elizabeth Carreiro serves as its Group General Counsel & Corporate Secretary.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.65358 of HG’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 HG 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 HG analysts setting a high price target of 26.0 and a low target of 20.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 23.0. Based on these targets, HG could surge 43.17% to reach the target high and rise by 10.13% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 26.65% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.89797 being high and $3.78755 being low. For HG, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.84276. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.72. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.21 and the low estimate is $1.0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.13.
