With 58.27 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 39.0 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $13.72 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $13.32. The 52-week range on NU shows that it touched its highest point at $16.15 and its lowest point at $8.04 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $15.15. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.09.
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 NU was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -15.03%, but this was down by -7.43% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -6.53% while six-month performance rose 11.98%. The stock gained 66.79% in the past year, while it has gained 61.58% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for NU yields 0.36 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.60. For the next quarter, that number is 0.12. This implies an EPS growth rate of 75.58% for this year and 43.02% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 3.68 billion NU shares are outstanding with a float of 3.13 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 168.22 million, which was 350.99998 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. David Velez-Osomo as the firm’s Founder, Chairman & CEO, Mr. Youssef Lahrech serves as its COO & President.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.83733004 of NU’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 NU since 9 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 8 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 NU analysts setting a high price target of 19.0 and a low target of 8.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 15.94. Based on these targets, NU could surge 41.16% to reach the target high and fall by -40.56% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 18.42% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.46251 being high and $0.40084 being low. For NU, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.4214. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.1. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.15 and the low estimate is $0.12. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.13.
