With 0.15 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.15 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $11.66 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $11.25. The 52-week range on HMST shows that it touched its highest point at $16.10 and its lowest point at $5.98 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $11.75. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.47.
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 HMST was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.78%, but this was down by -17.67% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -26.40% while six-month performance rose 30.38%. The stock gained 83.36% in the past year, while it has gained 11.26% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HMST yields -1.30 with Next year EPS estimates of -0.03. For the next quarter, that number is -0.23. This implies an EPS growth rate of 12.67% for this year and 98.04% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 18.81 million HMST shares are outstanding with a float of 17.83 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-15, short shares totaled 0.42 million, which was 223.0 higher than short shares on 1728950400. In addition to Mr. Mark K. Mason CPA as the firm’s Executive Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. John Matthias Michel CPA serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.80560994 of HMST’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 HMST since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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 HMST analysts setting a high price target of 14.0 and a low target of 10.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 11.75. Based on these targets, HMST could surge 22.16% to reach the target high and fall by -12.74% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 2.53% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$1.23958 being high and -$1.29861 being low. For HMST, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$1.275. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was -$0.28. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.01 and the low estimate is -$0.32. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.14.
