With 0.13 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.23 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $27.515 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $26.885. The 52-week range on CPF shows that it touched its highest point at $33.25 and its lowest point at $18.00 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $32.00. With its current market cap of 742.65 million, CPF has annualized dividend of $1.04 while the current yield stands at 3.79%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.17.
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 CPF was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -5.54%, but this was down by -12.92% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -1.58% while six-month performance rose 27.33%. The stock gained 42.84% in the past year, while it has lost -5.54% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CPF yields 2.10 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.55. For the next quarter, that number is 0.61. This implies an EPS growth rate of -0.23% for this year and 17.78% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 1.52%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 27.06 million CPF shares are outstanding with a float of 26.50 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 0.43 million, which was 160.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Arnold D. Martines as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. David S. Morimoto serves as its Senior EVP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.9596 of CPF’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 CPF 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 CPF analysts setting a high price target of 32.0 and a low target of 32.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 32.0. Based on these targets, CPF could surge 16.62% to reach the target high and rise by 16.62% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 16.62% 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 $2.18391 being high and $2.13664 being low. For CPF, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.165.
