With 0.68 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.52 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $55.3675 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $53.05. The 52-week range on HWC shows that it touched its highest point at $62.40 and its lowest point at $41.19 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $66.22. With its current market cap of 4.58 billion, HWC has annualized dividend of $1.50 while the current yield stands at 2.82%. HWC paid its most recent dividend on 1733356800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1733356800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.30.
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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 HWC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -7.70%, but this was down by -6.91% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 3.54% while six-month performance rose 18.33%. The stock gained 9.82% in the past year, while it has gained 9.59% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HWC yields 4.46 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.14. For the next quarter, that number is 1.28. This implies an EPS growth rate of 0.24% for this year and -1.22% 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 3.88%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 86.14 million HWC shares are outstanding with a float of 85.02 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-29, short shares totaled 2.21 million, which was 257.0 higher than short shares on 1730332800. In addition to Mr. John M. Hairston as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Michael M. Achary CPA serves as its Senior EVP, CFO & Principal Accounting Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.85102 of HWC’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 HWC since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 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 HWC analysts setting a high price target of 70.0 and a low target of 59.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 65.59375. Based on these targets, HWC could surge 31.46% to reach the target high and rise by 10.8% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 23.18% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $5.25145 being high and $5.13119 being low. For HWC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.20134. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.28 and the low estimate is $1.17. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.22.
