With 0.15 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.17 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $57.825 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $56.715. The 52-week range on EFSC shows that it touched its highest point at $63.13 and its lowest point at $37.28 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $65.75. With its current market cap of 2.14 billion, EFSC has annualized dividend of $1.06 while the current yield stands at 1.84%. EFSC paid its most recent dividend on 1734307200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1734307200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.00.
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 EFSC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 6.80%, but this was down by -3.23% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 8.16% while six-month performance rose 22.89%. The stock gained 37.20% in the past year, while it has gained 2.41% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EFSC yields 4.72 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.56. For the next quarter, that number is 1.18. This implies an EPS growth rate of -6.59% for this year and -3.70% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 37.18 million EFSC shares are outstanding with a float of 36.45 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 0.46 million, which was 123.00000499999999 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. James Brian Lally as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Keene S. Turner CPA serves as its Senior EVP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.79004997 of EFSC’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 EFSC 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 EFSC analysts setting a high price target of 68.0 and a low target of 61.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 65.33333. Based on these targets, EFSC could surge 17.73% to reach the target high and rise by 5.61% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 13.11% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $4.76579 being high and $4.69629 being low. For EFSC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.736.
