With 2.32 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.33 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Diversified company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $47.985 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $47.495. The 52-week range on EQH shows that it touched its highest point at $50.51 and its lowest point at $31.31 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $54.00. With its current market cap of 14.96 billion, EQH has annualized dividend of $0.94 while the current yield stands at 1.97%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.38.
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 EQH was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -0.73%, but this was up by 7.28% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 20.59% while six-month performance rose 18.44%. The stock gained 52.39% in the past year, while it has gained 43.33% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EQH yields -1.08 with Next year EPS estimates of 7.25. For the next quarter, that number is 1.65. This implies an EPS growth rate of 31.64% for this year and 20.03% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 19.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 1.22%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 315.47 million EQH shares are outstanding with a float of 311.88 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-15, short shares totaled 4.13 million, which was 132.00001 higher than short shares on 1728950400. In addition to Mr. Mark Pearson as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Robin Matthew Raju serves as its Senior EVP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.97959 of EQH’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 EQH since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 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 EQH analysts setting a high price target of 61.0 and a low target of 45.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 53.3. Based on these targets, EQH could surge 27.8% to reach the target high and fall by -5.72% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 11.67% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $6.11237 being high and $5.99252 being low. For EQH, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.04246. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $1.4. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.74 and the low estimate is $1.64. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.68.
