With 12.56 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 12.6 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Diversified company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $13.0364 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $12.84. The 52-week range on BCS shows that it touched its highest point at $13.57 and its lowest point at $7.02 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $15.05. With its current market cap of 46.89 billion, BCS has annualized dividend of $0.42 while the current yield stands at 3.25%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.42.
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 BCS was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.82%, but this was down by -1.59% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 6.22% while six-month performance rose 17.06%. The stock gained 83.45% in the past year, while it has gained 64.59% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BCS yields 1.48 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.07. For the next quarter, that number is 0.25. This implies an EPS growth rate of 31.64% for this year and 15.28% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 2.10% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 22.49%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 3.78 billion BCS shares are outstanding with a float of 3.42 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 5.66 million, which was 17.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Coimbatore Sundararajan Venkatakrishnan Ph.D. as the firm’s Group CEO & Executive Director, Ms. Angela Anna Cross serves as its Group Finance Director & Executive Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.05548 of BCS’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 BCS since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 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 BCS analysts setting a high price target of 11.6 and a low target of 9.64, the average target price over the next 12 months is 10.62. Based on these targets, BCS could drop -10.56% to reach the target high and fall by -25.67% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -18.12% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.94836 being high and $1.64293 being low. For BCS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.80092. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0 and the low estimate is $0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.
