With 3.08 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.52 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Diversified company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $53.38 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $52.61. The 52-week range on EQH shows that it touched its highest point at $53.99 and its lowest point at $31.76 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $57.73. With its current market cap of 16.63 billion, EQH has annualized dividend of $0.94 while the current yield stands at 1.77%. EQH paid its most recent dividend on 1732579200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1732579200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.39.
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 EQH was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.71%, but this was up by 12.94% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 16.81% while six-month performance rose 25.31%. The stock gained 59.83% in the past year, while it has gained 12.53% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EQH yields -1.08 with Next year EPS estimates of 7.27. For the next quarter, that number is 1.62. This implies an EPS growth rate of 30.87% for this year and 21.09% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 22.41% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 1.22%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 315.47 million EQH shares are outstanding with a float of 311.93 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 4.24 million, which was 135.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Mark Pearson as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Robin Matthew Raju serves as its Senior EVP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.99450994 of EQH’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 EQH since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 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 EQH analysts setting a high price target of 70.0 and a low target of 49.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 57.72727. Based on these targets, EQH could surge 31.88% to reach the target high and fall by -7.69% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 8.76% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $6.1363 being high and $5.94703 being low. For EQH, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.0068. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.74 and the low estimate is $1.63. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.69.
