Taking on analysts’ expectations and winning: Independent Bank Corporation (Ionia, MI) (IBCP)

With 0.15 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 85990.0 shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $33.92 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $32.87. The 52-week range on IBCP shows that it touched its highest point at $40.32 and its lowest point at $22.53 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $37.60. With its current market cap of 703.30 million, IBCP has annualized dividend of $0.96 while the current yield stands at 2.85%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.02.

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 IBCP was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.36%, but this was down by -11.47% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 5.02% while six-month performance rose 25.04%. The stock gained 30.97% in the past year, while it has lost -3.36% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for IBCP yields 2.94 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.04. For the next quarter, that number is 0.76. This implies an EPS growth rate of 0.00% for this year and 0.33% 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 10.73%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 20.89 million IBCP shares are outstanding with a float of 19.96 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 0.19 million, which was 89.99999999999999 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. William Bradford Kessel CPA as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Gavin A. Mohr serves as its CFO, Executive VP, Treasurer & Corporate Secretary.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.86484003 of IBCP’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 IBCP 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 IBCP analysts setting a high price target of 41.0 and a low target of 35.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 38.2. Based on these targets, IBCP could surge 21.81% to reach the target high and rise by 3.98% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 13.49% 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 $3.27323 being high and $2.78101 being low. For IBCP, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.03.