Ready Capital Corp (RC) Clearly Signals Buy-Into the Stock: Don’t ignore the signals

With 2.31 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.72 million shares. During the session, the REIT – Mortgage company that operates in wider Real Estate sector, reached to the highest price of $6.96 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $6.76. The 52-week range on RC shows that it touched its highest point at $10.36 and its lowest point at $6.65 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $8.29. With its current market cap of 1.16 billion, RC has annualized dividend of $1.10 while the current yield stands at 16.03%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.47.

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 RC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -0.15%, but this was down by -6.28% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -3.79% while six-month performance fell -19.39%. The stock lost -30.57% in the past year, while it has gained 0.59% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for RC yields -0.73 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.96. For the next quarter, that number is 0.20. This implies an EPS growth rate of -59.87% for this year and 103.51% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 14.21% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 4.07%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 168.53 million RC shares are outstanding with a float of 166.90 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 20.73 million, which was 1230.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Andrew Ahlborn CPA as the firm’s CFO & Secretary, Mr. Gary T. Taylor serves as its Chief Operating Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.61474 of RC’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 RC 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 RC analysts setting a high price target of 10.0 and a low target of 6.75, the average target price over the next 12 months is 8.29167. Based on these targets, RC could surge 45.77% to reach the target high and fall by -1.6% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 20.87% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.55076 being high and $0.49913 being low. For RC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.53355.