With 1.08 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.26 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $51.37 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $50.59. The 52-week range on OZK shows that it touched its highest point at $51.50 and its lowest point at $37.43 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $54.38. With its current market cap of 5.77 billion, OZK has annualized dividend of $1.62 while the current yield stands at 3.18%. OZK paid its most recent dividend on 1736812800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1736812800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.19.
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 OZK was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 12.49%, but this was up by 17.13% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 18.38% while six-month performance rose 9.66%. The stock gained 3.18% in the past year, while it has gained 14.24% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for OZK yields 6.14 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.67. For the next quarter, that number is 1.42. This implies an EPS growth rate of -2.62% for this year and 11.50% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 6.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 13.21%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 113.46 million OZK shares are outstanding with a float of 107.79 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 14.64 million, which was 1291.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. George G. Gleason II as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Paschall Brannon Hamblen serves as its President.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.95953006 of OZK’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 OZK since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 OZK analysts setting a high price target of 65.0 and a low target of 40.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 54.375. Based on these targets, OZK could surge 27.78% to reach the target high and fall by -21.37% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 6.89% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $6.10478 being high and $5.9947 being low. For OZK, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.03473. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.54 and the low estimate is $1.28. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.45.
