Charles Schwab Corp (SCHW) Clearly Signals Buy-Into the Stock: Don’t ignore the signals

With 14.72 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 8.26 million shares. During the session, the Capital Markets company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $82.5 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $79.81. The 52-week range on SCHW shows that it touched its highest point at $79.49 and its lowest point at $54.24 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $76.95. With its current market cap of 146.79 billion, SCHW has annualized dividend of $1.00 while the current yield stands at 1.25%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.94.

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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 SCHW was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 9.59%, but this was up by 11.25% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 22.33% while six-month performance rose 2.75%. The stock gained 46.36% in the past year, while it has gained 16.56% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SCHW yields 2.56 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.83. For the next quarter, that number is 0.88. This implies an EPS growth rate of -0.13% for this year and 22.60% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 16.54% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 0.75%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 1.77 billion SCHW shares are outstanding with a float of 1.67 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 16.97 million, which was 93.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Charles Robert Schwab as the firm’s Founder & Co-Chairman, Mr. Walter William Bettinger II serves as its CEO & Co-Chairman.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.81931 of SCHW’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 SCHW since 17 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 13 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 4 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 SCHW analysts setting a high price target of 88.0 and a low target of 61.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 76.6. Based on these targets, SCHW could surge 9.74% to reach the target high and fall by -23.93% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -4.48% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.16232 being high and $3.08226 being low. For SCHW, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.12229. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.72. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.95 and the low estimate is $0.77. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.88.