A History of Outperforming Analyst Forecasts and Beating the Odds: Flagstar Financial Inc (FLG)

With 4.86 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 6.26 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $9.57 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $9.37. The 52-week range on FLG shows that it touched its highest point at $31.56 and its lowest point at $5.10 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $12.12. With its current market cap of 3.96 billion, FLG has annualized dividend of $0.20 while the current yield stands at 2.10%. FLG paid its most recent dividend on 1733443200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1733443200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.07.

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 FLG was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.14%, but this was down by -4.60% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -22.94% while six-month performance fell -14.67%. The stock lost -67.65% in the past year, while it has gained 2.25% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FLG yields -14.47 with Next year EPS estimates of -0.36. For the next quarter, that number is -0.55. This implies an EPS growth rate of -136.76% for this year and 89.78% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 415.26 million FLG shares are outstanding with a float of 302.04 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 44.94 million, which was 1083.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Lee Matthew Smith as the firm’s Senior Executive VP & CFO, Mr. Reginald E. Davis serves as its Senior Executive VP & President of Consumer and Corporate Banking.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.82612 of FLG’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

Analysts Ratings:

In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With FLG analysts setting a high price target of 13.5 and a low target of 10.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 12.125. Based on these targets, FLG could surge 41.51% to reach the target high and rise by 10.06% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 27.1% from current levels.

Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is -$0.02 and the low estimate is -$0.4. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.24.