With 58430.0 shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 39090.0 shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $82.56 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $80.27. The 52-week range on ESQ shows that it touched its highest point at $81.68 and its lowest point at $44.45 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $85.00. With its current market cap of 674.03 million, ESQ has annualized dividend of $0.60 while the current yield stands at 0.74%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.72.
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 ESQ was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.89%, but this was up by 4.03% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 31.64% while six-month performance rose 67.91%. The stock gained 66.91% in the past year, while it has gained 1.89% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ESQ yields 4.96 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.51. For the next quarter, that number is 1.38. This implies an EPS growth rate of 13.08% for this year and 6.86% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 8.32 million ESQ shares are outstanding with a float of 7.00 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 0.24 million, which was 287.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Andrew C. Sagliocca as the firm’s Vice Chairman, CEO & President, Mr. Eric S. Bader serves as its Executive VP & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.58419997 of ESQ’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 ESQ 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 ESQ analysts setting a high price target of 85.0 and a low target of 75.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 80.0. Based on these targets, ESQ could surge 4.94% to reach the target high and fall by -7.41% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -1.23% 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 $5.17634 being high and $5.12657 being low. For ESQ, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.15643.
