With 0.83 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.54 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $60.08 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $58.775. The 52-week range on HWC shows that it touched its highest point at $62.40 and its lowest point at $41.19 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $66.22. With its current market cap of 5.12 billion, HWC has annualized dividend of $1.50 while the current yield stands at 2.52%. HWC paid its most recent dividend on 1733356800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1733356800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.28.
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 HWC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 7.83%, but this was up by 3.07% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 12.11% while six-month performance rose 10.75%. The stock gained 30.42% in the past year, while it has gained 8.66% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HWC yields 4.46 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.14. For the next quarter, that number is 1.28. This implies an EPS growth rate of 0.24% for this year and -1.22% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 86.14 million HWC shares are outstanding with a float of 85.02 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 2.25 million, which was 260.99999 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. John M. Hairston as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Michael M. Achary CPA serves as its Senior EVP, CFO & Principal Accounting Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.85038 of HWC’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 HWC since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 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 HWC analysts setting a high price target of 70.0 and a low target of 59.75, the average target price over the next 12 months is 66.21875. Based on these targets, HWC could surge 17.73% to reach the target high and rise by 0.49% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 11.37% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $5.26147 being high and $5.13119 being low. For HWC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.20134. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.28 and the low estimate is $1.17. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.22.
