Taking on analysts’ expectations and winning: Pathward Financial Inc (CASH)

With 0.13 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.21 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $75.07 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $73.8. The 52-week range on CASH shows that it touched its highest point at $86.00 and its lowest point at $46.68 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $92.00. With its current market cap of 1.80 billion, CASH has annualized dividend of $0.20 while the current yield stands at 0.27%. CASH paid its most recent dividend on 1733788800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1733788800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.73.

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 CASH was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.22%, but this was down by -11.96% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 9.30% while six-month performance rose 28.06%. The stock gained 46.90% in the past year, while it has gained 1.22% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CASH yields 6.62 with Next year EPS estimates of 8.30. For the next quarter, that number is 1.23. This implies an EPS growth rate of 11.18% for this year and 12.77% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 24.85 million CASH shares are outstanding with a float of 23.70 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 1.84 million, which was 761.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Brett L. Pharr as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Anthony M. Sharett J.D. serves as its President.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.98285 of CASH’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

Analysts Ratings:

In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With CASH analysts setting a high price target of 90.0 and a low target of 82.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 86.0. Based on these targets, CASH could surge 20.84% to reach the target high and rise by 10.1% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 15.47% 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 $6.57337 being high and $6.53329 being low. For CASH, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.55333.