A look into Provident Financial Services Inc (PFS)’s deeper side

With 0.61 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.61 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $19.48 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $18.64. The 52-week range on PFS shows that it touched its highest point at $22.24 and its lowest point at $13.07 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $24.00. With its current market cap of 2.43 billion, PFS has annualized dividend of $0.96 while the current yield stands at 5.15%. PFS paid its most recent dividend on 1723766400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731628800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.07.

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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 PFS was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -8.22%, but this was down by -10.98% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -1.17% while six-month performance rose 38.18%. The stock gained 2.47% in the past year, while it has gained 3.38% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PFS yields 1.04 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.14. For the next quarter, that number is 0.50. This implies an EPS growth rate of 9.00% for this year and 14.56% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -1.17%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 130.45 million PFS shares are outstanding with a float of 115.96 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-29, short shares totaled 2.94 million, which was 225.0 higher than short shares on 1730332800. In addition to Mr. Christopher P. Martin as the firm’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Anthony J. Labozzetta serves as its President, CEO & Director.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.69163 of PFS’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 PFS since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 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 PFS analysts setting a high price target of 27.0 and a low target of 21.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 23.66667. Based on these targets, PFS could surge 44.85% to reach the target high and rise by 12.66% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 26.97% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.955 being high and $1.76253 being low. For PFS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.86383. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.52 and the low estimate is $0.47. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.49.