With 0.8 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.93 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $31.01 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $30.45. The 52-week range on HOMB shows that it touched its highest point at $31.33 and its lowest point at $21.70 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $30.86. With its current market cap of 6.11 billion, HOMB has annualized dividend of $0.75 while the current yield stands at 2.44%. HOMB paid its most recent dividend on 1731456000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731456000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.06.
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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 HOMB was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.39%, but this was up by 13.64% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 10.25% while six-month performance rose 30.63%. The stock gained 41.25% in the past year, while it has gained 21.40% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HOMB yields 1.93 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.12. For the next quarter, that number is 0.53. This implies an EPS growth rate of 4.37% for this year and 3.10% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 5.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 2.35%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 201.53 million HOMB shares are outstanding with a float of 183.98 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 4.06 million, which was 203.99998999999997 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. John W. Allison as the firm’s Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Mr. Kevin D. Hester serves as its President & Chief Lending Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.69899005 of HOMB’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 HOMB since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 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 HOMB analysts setting a high price target of 36.0 and a low target of 28.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 30.42857. Based on these targets, HOMB could surge 17.07% to reach the target high and fall by -8.94% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -1.05% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.07618 being high and $2.04594 being low. For HOMB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.05602. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.49. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.54 and the low estimate is $0.49. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.51.
