With 0.56 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.68 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $11.92 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $11.595. The 52-week range on BRKL shows that it touched its highest point at $13.15 and its lowest point at $8.01 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $14.88. With its current market cap of 1.04 billion, BRKL has annualized dividend of $0.54 while the current yield stands at 4.66%. BRKL paid its most recent dividend on 1723766400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731628800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.77.
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 BRKL was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.01%, but this was down by -8.23% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 19.59% while six-month performance rose 36.15%. The stock gained 6.23% in the past year, while it has lost -1.69% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BRKL yields 0.83 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.65. For the next quarter, that number is 0.24. This implies an EPS growth rate of -4.41% for this year and -20.31% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 6.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -3.99%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 89.98 million BRKL shares are outstanding with a float of 87.06 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 1.67 million, which was 186.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Paul A. Perrault as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Michael W. McCurdy Esq. serves as its Co-President & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.82862 of BRKL’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 BRKL since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 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 BRKL analysts setting a high price target of 16.0 and a low target of 14.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 14.875. Based on these targets, BRKL could surge 37.93% to reach the target high and rise by 20.69% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 28.23% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.82241 being high and $0.80264 being low. For BRKL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.8125. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.25 and the low estimate is $0.22. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.23.
