With 0.21 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.17 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $37.37 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $36.36. The 52-week range on STBA shows that it touched its highest point at $45.79 and its lowest point at $28.83 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $42.50. With its current market cap of 1.41 billion, STBA has annualized dividend of $1.33 while the current yield stands at 3.62%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.83.
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 STBA was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.87%, but this was down by -14.34% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -6.08% while six-month performance rose 10.00%. The stock gained 10.30% in the past year, while it has lost -3.87% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for STBA yields 3.51 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.03. For the next quarter, that number is 0.77. This implies an EPS growth rate of -11.18% for this year and -8.91% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 10.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 4.38%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 38.26 million STBA shares are outstanding with a float of 37.74 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 0.85 million, which was 223.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Christopher J. McComish as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. David G. Antolik serves as its President & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.71092004 of STBA’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 STBA since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 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 STBA analysts setting a high price target of 44.0 and a low target of 40.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 42.5. Based on these targets, STBA could surge 19.76% to reach the target high and rise by 8.87% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 15.68% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.35166 being high and $3.30223 being low. For STBA, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.322. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.78 and the low estimate is $0.65. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.73.
