With 0.29 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.15 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Property & Casualty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $63.455 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $61.29. The 52-week range on STC shows that it touched its highest point at $78.44 and its lowest point at $56.16 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $78.00. With its current market cap of 1.73 billion, STC has annualized dividend of $1.95 while the current yield stands at 3.13%. STC paid its most recent dividend on 1734307200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1734307200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.26.
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 STC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -7.56%, but this was down by -16.99% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -9.22% while six-month performance fell -2.32%. The stock gained 5.12% in the past year, while it has lost -7.56% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for STC yields 2.12 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.71. For the next quarter, that number is 0.97. This implies an EPS growth rate of 170.27% for this year and 90.50% 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 -11.23%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 27.71 million STC shares are outstanding with a float of 27.24 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 0.76 million, which was 275.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Frederick Henry Eppinger Jr. as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. David C. Hisey CPA serves as its CFO & Treasurer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.0173 of STC’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 STC since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 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 STC analysts setting a high price target of 82.0 and a low target of 74.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 78.0. Based on these targets, STC could surge 31.43% to reach the target high and rise by 18.61% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 25.02% 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 $3.18157 being high and $2.81843 being low. For STC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.61 and the low estimate is $0.41. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.51.
