With 0.14 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.19 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $32.92 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $32.121. The 52-week range on WASH shows that it touched its highest point at $40.59 and its lowest point at $24.11 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $36.50. With its current market cap of 632.42 million, WASH has annualized dividend of $2.24 while the current yield stands at 6.82%. WASH paid its most recent dividend on 1735776000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1735776000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.83.
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 WASH was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 10.99%, but this was down by -5.69% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -2.41% while six-month performance rose 5.83%. The stock gained 13.32% in the past year, while it has gained 4.72% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WASH yields 2.67 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.75. For the next quarter, that number is -0.78. This implies an EPS growth rate of -61.47% for this year and 153.07% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 19.26 million WASH shares are outstanding with a float of 18.91 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 0.32 million, which was 167.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Edward Otis Handy III as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Ms. Mary E. Noons serves as its President & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.63717 of WASH’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 WASH 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 WASH analysts setting a high price target of 37.0 and a low target of 36.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 36.5. Based on these targets, WASH could surge 12.7% to reach the target high and rise by 9.66% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 11.18% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.10413 being high and $1.06921 being low. For WASH, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.08667. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.64 and the low estimate is $0.6. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.62.
