Ready to Jump After Recent Trade: Old Second Bancorporation Inc (OSBC)

With 0.64 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.27 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $18.66 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $17.26. The 52-week range on OSBC shows that it touched its highest point at $19.37 and its lowest point at $13.00 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $21.33. With its current market cap of 817.68 million, OSBC has annualized dividend of $0.21 while the current yield stands at 1.15%. OSBC paid its most recent dividend on 1729814400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1738281600. 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 OSBC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.33%, but this was up by 5.50% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 11.43% while six-month performance rose 7.36%. The stock gained 16.78% in the past year, while it has gained 2.53% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for OSBC yields 1.87 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.85. For the next quarter, that number is 0.45. This implies an EPS growth rate of -1.69% for this year and 0.85% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 44.87 million OSBC shares are outstanding with a float of 41.45 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 0.57 million, which was 126.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. James L. Eccher as the firm’s President, CEO & Chairman of the Board, Mr. Bradley S. Adams serves as its EVP, COO & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.73184997 of OSBC’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 OSBC since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 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 OSBC analysts setting a high price target of 24.0 and a low target of 19.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 21.33333. Based on these targets, OSBC could surge 31.65% to reach the target high and rise by 4.22% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 17.02% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.93487 being high and $1.90526 being low. For OSBC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.925. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.47 and the low estimate is $0.46. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.46.