With 0.2 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.26 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Property & Casualty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $16.93 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $16.58. The 52-week range on PRA shows that it touched its highest point at $17.79 and its lowest point at $10.76 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $18.25. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.29.
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 PRA was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.02%, but this was up by 10.07% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 24.48% while six-month performance rose 15.06%. The stock gained 30.70% in the past year, while it has gained 21.32% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PRA yields 0.84 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.88. For the next quarter, that number is 0.17. This implies an EPS growth rate of 685.01% for this year and 6.85% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 50.97 million PRA shares are outstanding with a float of 50.43 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-15, short shares totaled 0.68 million, which was 133.00001 higher than short shares on 1728950400. In addition to Mr. Edward Lewis Rand Jr., CPA as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Ms. Dana Shannon Hendricks CPA serves as its Executive VP, Treasurer & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.86471003 of PRA’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 PRA since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 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 PRA analysts setting a high price target of 20.0 and a low target of 17.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 18.25. Based on these targets, PRA could surge 19.55% to reach the target high and rise by 1.61% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 9.09% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.96898 being high and $0.57677 being low. For PRA, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.81902. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.09. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.2 and the low estimate is $0.18. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.19.
