With 57304.0 shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 58890.0 shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $41.43 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $40.33. The 52-week range on EQBK shows that it touched its highest point at $50.85 and its lowest point at $30.44 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $52.00. With its current market cap of 707.24 million, EQBK has annualized dividend of $0.54 while the current yield stands at 1.30%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.92.
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 EQBK was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.43%, but this was down by -12.92% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 6.24% while six-month performance rose 17.59%. The stock gained 19.76% in the past year, while it has lost -2.43% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EQBK yields 1.11 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.75. For the next quarter, that number is 0.91. This implies an EPS growth rate of 671.60% for this year and -2.85% 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 -26.18%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 15.30 million EQBK shares are outstanding with a float of 14.77 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 31650.0, which was 18.000000999999997 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Brad S. Elliott as the firm’s Founder, Chairman & CEO, Mr. Chris M. Navratil serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.63364 of EQBK’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 EQBK since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 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 EQBK analysts setting a high price target of 56.0 and a low target of 48.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 52.0. Based on these targets, EQBK could surge 35.3% to reach the target high and rise by 15.97% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 25.63% 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 $3.88887 being high and $3.83021 being low. For EQBK, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.858.
