With 77137.0 shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.16 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Property & Casualty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $115.99 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $110.65. The 52-week range on HCI shows that it touched its highest point at $126.50 and its lowest point at $81.35 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $142.75. With its current market cap of 1.21 billion, HCI has annualized dividend of $1.60 while the current yield stands at 1.40%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.12.
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 HCI was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.68%, but this was down by -1.67% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 17.81% while six-month performance rose 34.13%. The stock gained 28.95% in the past year, while it has lost -1.68% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HCI yields 11.96 with Next year EPS estimates of 13.26. For the next quarter, that number is -3.02. This implies an EPS growth rate of -16.29% for this year and 113.71% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 25.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 26.67%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 10.48 million HCI shares are outstanding with a float of 8.25 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 1.08 million, which was 1028.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Pareshbhai Suryakant Patel as the firm’s Founder, Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. Gregory Politis serves as its Co-Founder & Lead Independent Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.83001 of HCI’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 HCI since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 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 HCI analysts setting a high price target of 150.0 and a low target of 126.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 140.25. Based on these targets, HCI could surge 30.92% to reach the target high and rise by 9.98% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 22.41% 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 $6.52118 being high and $5.8845 being low. For HCI, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.20284.
