With 0.18 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.18 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $30.67 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $29.94. The 52-week range on WASH shows that it touched its highest point at $40.59 and its lowest point at $24.11 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $36.50. With its current market cap of 590.23 million, WASH has annualized dividend of $2.24 while the current yield stands at 7.31%. 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 WASH was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.26%, but this was down by -15.87% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -0.52% while six-month performance rose 15.71%. The stock gained 0.10% in the past year, while it has lost -2.26% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WASH yields 2.67 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.75. For the next quarter, that number is 0.58. This implies an EPS growth rate of -14.18% for this year and 13.64% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 5.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -6.42%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 19.26 million WASH shares are outstanding with a float of 18.86 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 0.98 million, which was 575.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Edward Otis Handy III as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Ms. Mary E. Noons serves as its President & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.63701 of WASH’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 WASH since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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 WASH analysts setting a high price target of 37.0 and a low target of 36.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 36.5. Based on these targets, WASH could surge 20.76% to reach the target high and rise by 17.49% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 19.13% 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 $2.45888 being high and $2.38112 being low. For WASH, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.42.
