With 0.52 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.39 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Reinsurance company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $390.83 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $386.38. The 52-week range on EG shows that it touched its highest point at $417.92 and its lowest point at $343.76 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $424.83. With its current market cap of 16.89 billion, EG has annualized dividend of $7.50 while the current yield stands at 1.93%. EG paid its most recent dividend on 1726444800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1732665600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.63.
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 EG was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.76%, but this was up by 0.49% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -0.12% while six-month performance fell -0.71%. The stock lost -4.66% in the past year, while it has gained 10.02% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EG yields 63.94 with Next year EPS estimates of 65.39. For the next quarter, that number is 12.07. This implies an EPS growth rate of -10.05% for this year and 9.50% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 0.80% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 94.32%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 43.40 million EG shares are outstanding with a float of 32.77 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 0.72 million, which was 168.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Juan Carlos Andrade as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Mark Kociancic C.F.A. serves as its Executive VP & Group CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.96576 of EG’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 EG since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 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 EG analysts setting a high price target of 517.0 and a low target of 372.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 429.0. Based on these targets, EG could surge 32.9% to reach the target high and fall by -4.37% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 10.28% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $62.86373 being high and $51.01237 being low. For EG, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $59.72054. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $16.64. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $19.31 and the low estimate is $16.78. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $18.02.
