A better buy-in window may exist right now for Eastern Bankshares Inc (EBC)

With 0.78 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.94 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $17.475 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $16.88. The 52-week range on EBC shows that it touched its highest point at $19.40 and its lowest point at $12.22 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $19.50. With its current market cap of 3.64 billion, EBC has annualized dividend of $0.45 while the current yield stands at 2.65%. EBC paid its most recent dividend on 1733184000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1733184000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.94.

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 EBC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.19%, but this was down by -8.72% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 6.67% while six-month performance rose 21.42%. The stock gained 20.55% in the past year, while it has lost -1.74% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EBC yields 2.32 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.30. For the next quarter, that number is 0.29. This implies an EPS growth rate of -1.83% for this year and 32.82% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 214.80 million EBC shares are outstanding with a float of 197.45 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 3.66 million, which was 184.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Robert F. Rivers as the firm’s Executive Chairman of the Board, Mr. Quincy L. Miller serves as its President & COO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.74044997 of EBC’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

Analysts Ratings:

In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With EBC analysts setting a high price target of 21.0 and a low target of 17.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 19.5. Based on these targets, EBC could surge 23.89% to reach the target high and rise by 0.29% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 15.04% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.01258 being high and $0.95242 being low. For EBC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.9825. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.31 and the low estimate is $0.29. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.3.