With 0.84 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.75 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $39.83 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $39.05. The 52-week range on BKU shows that it touched its highest point at $44.45 and its lowest point at $24.34 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $42.52. With its current market cap of 2.94 billion, BKU has annualized dividend of $1.16 while the current yield stands at 2.95%. BKU paid its most recent dividend on 1736467200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1736467200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.36.
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 BKU was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.07%, but this was down by -2.91% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 5.75% while six-month performance rose 13.59%. The stock gained 35.11% in the past year, while it has gained 3.14% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BKU yields 2.44 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.17. For the next quarter, that number is 0.72. This implies an EPS growth rate of -2.94% for this year and 8.84% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 74.75 million BKU shares are outstanding with a float of 74.03 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 2.34 million, which was 313.00000000000006 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Rajinder P. Singh as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Ms. Leslie N. Lunak CPA serves as its Chief Financial Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.01609 of BKU’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 BKU since 10 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 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 BKU analysts setting a high price target of 48.0 and a low target of 37.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 42.525. Based on these targets, BKU could surge 21.92% to reach the target high and fall by -6.02% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 8.01% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.02711 being high and $2.86567 being low. For BKU, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.91612. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.77 and the low estimate is $0.68. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.73.
