With 0.61 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.37 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $36.11 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $35.455. The 52-week range on WSBC shows that it touched its highest point at $37.36 and its lowest point at $25.56 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $38.29. With its current market cap of 2.38 billion, WSBC has annualized dividend of $1.44 while the current yield stands at 4.05%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.86.
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 WSBC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.20%, but this was up by 12.23% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 15.21% while six-month performance rose 31.60%. The stock gained 26.14% in the past year, while it has gained 13.23% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WSBC yields 2.08 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.18. For the next quarter, that number is 0.54. This implies an EPS growth rate of -16.13% for this year and 47.90% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 10.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -3.01%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 66.87 million WSBC shares are outstanding with a float of 64.87 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-15, short shares totaled 2.02 million, which was 301.99999 higher than short shares on 1728950400. In addition to Mr. Jeffrey H. Jackson as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Daniel K. Weiss Jr. serves as its Senior Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.68884003 of WSBC’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 WSBC since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 WSBC analysts setting a high price target of 42.0 and a low target of 34.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 37.71429. Based on these targets, WSBC could surge 18.24% to reach the target high and fall by -4.28% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 6.18% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.17724 being high and $2.09697 being low. For WSBC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.14714. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.53. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.74 and the low estimate is $0.54. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.63.
