With 16.65 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 13.23 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Diversified company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $70.2 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $68.45. The 52-week range on C shows that it touched its highest point at $70.20 and its lowest point at $44.56 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $77.32. With its current market cap of 133.79 billion, C has annualized dividend of $2.18 while the current yield stands at 3.12%. C paid its most recent dividend on 1730678400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1730678400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.43.
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 C was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.57%, but this was up by 10.86% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 13.03% while six-month performance rose 9.85%. The stock gained 55.13% in the past year, while it has gained 35.77% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for C yields 3.46 with Next year EPS estimates of 7.23. For the next quarter, that number is 1.21. This implies an EPS growth rate of 44.37% for this year and 23.94% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 23.14% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -9.56%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 1.90 billion C shares are outstanding with a float of 1.89 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 30.5 million, which was 161.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Ms. Jane Nind Fraser Ph.D. as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Mark A.L. Mason serves as its Chief Financial Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.73866 of C’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 C since 15 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 10 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 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 C analysts setting a high price target of 110.0 and a low target of 66.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 76.61632. Based on these targets, C could surge 57.5% to reach the target high and fall by -5.5% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 9.7% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $6.03187 being high and $5.67295 being low. For C, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.83247. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $1.39. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.19 and the low estimate is $1.66. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.89.
