Perhaps timely catching Farmers National Banc Corp (FMNB) would be a good idea

With 76992.0 shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 90970.0 shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $13.45 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $13.22. The 52-week range on FMNB shows that it touched its highest point at $16.32 and its lowest point at $11.55 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $16.67. With its current market cap of 499.54 million, FMNB has annualized dividend of $0.68 while the current yield stands at 5.12%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.88.

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 FMNB was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -6.54%, but this was down by -15.03% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -6.21% while six-month performance rose 5.98%. The stock lost -4.18% in the past year, while it has lost -6.54% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FMNB yields 1.23 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.44. For the next quarter, that number is 0.34. This implies an EPS growth rate of -11.28% for this year and 21.75% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 18.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 2.72%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 37.57 million FMNB shares are outstanding with a float of 35.94 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 0.25 million, which was 67.00000299999999 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Kevin J. Helmick as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Alan Troy Adair serves as its Senior Executive VP, CFO, Secretary & Treasurer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.39201 of FMNB’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 FMNB 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 FMNB analysts setting a high price target of 17.0 and a low target of 16.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 16.66667. Based on these targets, FMNB could surge 27.92% to reach the target high and rise by 20.39% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 25.41% 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 $1.18959 being high and $1.17041 being low. For FMNB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.18.