With 0.5 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.33 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Property & Casualty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $147.01 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $143.705. The 52-week range on AFG shows that it touched its highest point at $144.29 and its lowest point at $105.14 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $146.20. With its current market cap of 12.52 billion, AFG has annualized dividend of $2.93 while the current yield stands at 2.00%. AFG paid its most recent dividend on 1731628800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731628800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.80.
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 AFG was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 6.28%, but this was up by 13.65% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 14.62% while six-month performance rose 16.81%. The stock gained 37.81% in the past year, while it has gained 29.40% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AFG yields 10.67 with Next year EPS estimates of 11.85. For the next quarter, that number is 3.10. This implies an EPS growth rate of 1.62% for this year and 10.44% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 83.64 million AFG shares are outstanding with a float of 73.13 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 0.89 million, which was 106.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Stephen Craig Lindner as the firm’s Co-CEO & Director, Mr. Carl Henry Lindner III serves as its Co-CEO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.64448 of AFG’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 AFG since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 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 AFG analysts setting a high price target of 155.0 and a low target of 132.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 146.2. Based on these targets, AFG could surge 5.82% to reach the target high and fall by -9.88% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -0.18% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $10.90125 being high and $10.40119 being low. For AFG, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $10.73123. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $2.44. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $3.08 and the low estimate is $2.84. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.96.
