With 1.04 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.95 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $37.95 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $35.82. The 52-week range on AUB shows that it touched its highest point at $44.54 and its lowest point at $30.43 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $47.20. With its current market cap of 3.28 billion, AUB has annualized dividend of $1.30 while the current yield stands at 3.55%. AUB paid its most recent dividend on 1731024000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731024000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.91.
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 AUB was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -4.07%, but this was down by -1.56% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 0.99% while six-month performance fell -9.73%. The stock gained 2.09% in the past year, while it has lost -3.46% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AUB yields 2.41 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.09. For the next quarter, that number is 0.74. This implies an EPS growth rate of 22.54% for this year and 21.70% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 89.77 million AUB shares are outstanding with a float of 88.81 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 4.9 million, which was 546.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. John C. Asbury as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Robert Michael Gorman serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.76911 of AUB’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 AUB since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 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 AUB analysts setting a high price target of 52.0 and a low target of 41.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 47.2. Based on these targets, AUB could surge 42.19% to reach the target high and rise by 12.11% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 29.07% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.07734 being high and $2.83519 being low. For AUB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.926.
