With 1.92 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.01 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $29.56 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $28.2. The 52-week range on HOMB shows that it touched its highest point at $32.90 and its lowest point at $22.38 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $32.71. With its current market cap of 5.79 billion, HOMB has annualized dividend of $0.75 while the current yield stands at 2.55%. HOMB paid its most recent dividend on 1731456000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731456000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.09.
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 HOMB was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.18%, but this was down by -3.00% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 8.31% while six-month performance rose 9.85%. The stock gained 27.45% in the past year, while it has gained 4.03% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HOMB yields 2.01 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.25. For the next quarter, that number is 0.52. This implies an EPS growth rate of 6.95% for this year and 4.45% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 198.88 million HOMB shares are outstanding with a float of 184.30 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 4.36 million, which was 219.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. John W. Allison as the firm’s Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Mr. Kevin D. Hester serves as its President & Chief Lending Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.69671994 of HOMB’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 HOMB since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 HOMB analysts setting a high price target of 35.0 and a low target of 28.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 32.71429. Based on these targets, HOMB could surge 18.89% to reach the target high and fall by -4.89% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 11.12% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.06991 being high and $1.98953 being low. For HOMB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.03977. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.56 and the low estimate is $0.53. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.54.
