With 3.66 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.07 million shares. During the session, the REIT – Mortgage company that operates in wider Real Estate sector, reached to the highest price of $8.0299 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $7.86. The 52-week range on ORC shows that it touched its highest point at $9.08 and its lowest point at $7.41 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $9.50. With its current market cap of 619.48 million, ORC has annualized dividend of $1.44 while the current yield stands at 18.23%. ORC paid its most recent dividend on 1735603200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1738281600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.81.
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 ORC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.37%, but this was up by 1.28% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 1.28% while six-month performance fell -4.36%. The stock lost -6.73% in the past year, while it has gained 1.54% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ORC yields 1.05 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.25. For the next quarter, that number is -0.01. This implies an EPS growth rate of 75.08% for this year and 200.34% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 78.41 million ORC shares are outstanding with a float of 78.20 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 8.59 million, which was 1039.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Robert E. Cauley C.F.A., CPA as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. George Hunter Haas IV serves as its CFO, Chief Investment Officer, Secretary & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.29746 of ORC’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 ORC since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 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 ORC analysts setting a high price target of 9.5 and a low target of 9.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 9.5. Based on these targets, ORC could surge 20.25% to reach the target high and rise by 20.25% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 20.25% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$0.24667 being high and -$0.24667 being low. For ORC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.24667. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.28 and the low estimate is -$0.05. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.09.
