With 0.14 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.12 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $52.73 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $51.2501. The 52-week range on WABC shows that it touched its highest point at $59.97 and its lowest point at $43.82 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $57.00. With its current market cap of 1.40 billion, WABC has annualized dividend of $1.76 while the current yield stands at 3.36%. WABC paid its most recent dividend on 1730678400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1730678400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.57.
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 WABC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 6.70%, but this was down by -7.17% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 2.52% while six-month performance fell -5.64%. The stock lost -0.89% in the past year, while it has lost -0.10% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WABC yields 5.20 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.05. For the next quarter, that number is 1.11. This implies an EPS growth rate of -16.03% for this year and -7.25% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 26.71 million WABC shares are outstanding with a float of 25.44 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 0.17 million, which was 62.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. David L. Payne as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. Brian J. Donohoe serves as its Senior VP & Chief Information Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.77739996 of WABC’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 WABC since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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 WABC analysts setting a high price target of 60.0 and a low target of 54.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 57.0. Based on these targets, WABC could surge 14.48% to reach the target high and rise by 3.03% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 8.76% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $5.19012 being high and $5.13654 being low. For WABC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.16333. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.1 and the low estimate is $1.09. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.1.
