With 0.61 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.48 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $30.27 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $28.82. The 52-week range on WAFD shows that it touched its highest point at $38.62 and its lowest point at $25.78 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $33.25. With its current market cap of 2.39 billion, WAFD has annualized dividend of $1.04 while the current yield stands at 3.53%. WAFD paid its most recent dividend on 1732233600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1732233600. 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 WAFD was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -8.26%, but this was down by -7.89% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -13.44% while six-month performance fell -17.40%. The stock lost -3.82% in the past year, while it has lost -8.72% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WAFD yields 2.16 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.02. For the next quarter, that number is 0.58. This implies an EPS growth rate of -2.70% for this year and 24.15% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 81.37 million WAFD shares are outstanding with a float of 79.97 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 1.94 million, which was 239.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Brent J. Beardall CPA as the firm’s President, CEO & Vice Chairman, Ms. Kelli J. Holz CPA serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.79649 of WAFD’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 WAFD 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 WAFD analysts setting a high price target of 34.0 and a low target of 31.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 32.66667. Based on these targets, WAFD could surge 15.53% to reach the target high and rise by 5.33% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 11.0% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.49328 being high and $2.46989 being low. For WAFD, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.485. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.68 and the low estimate is $0.58. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.63.
