With 0.14 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.23 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $65.83 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $64.615. The 52-week range on HTLF shows that it touched its highest point at $70.27 and its lowest point at $32.03 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $70.50. With its current market cap of 2.82 billion, HTLF has annualized dividend of $1.50 while the current yield stands at 2.28%. HTLF paid its most recent dividend on 1736812800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1736812800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.98.
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 HTLF was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 8.87%, but this was down by -1.59% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 9.00% while six-month performance rose 29.69%. The stock gained 81.21% in the past year, while it has gained 7.30% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HTLF yields 1.78 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.31. For the next quarter, that number is 1.06. This implies an EPS growth rate of 1.43% for this year and -6.15% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 42.88 million HTLF shares are outstanding with a float of 42.11 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 0.63 million, which was 147.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Bruce K. Lee as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Jay L. Kim Esq. serves as its Executive VP, General Counsel, Chief Administrative Officer & Corporate Secretary.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.81952006 of HTLF’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 HTLF since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 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 HTLF analysts setting a high price target of 79.0 and a low target of 66.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 72.33333. Based on these targets, HTLF could surge 20.1% to reach the target high and rise by 0.33% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 9.96% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $4.67544 being high and $4.53467 being low. For HTLF, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.595. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.1 and the low estimate is $0.97. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.01.
