Top investors say ING Groep N.V. ADR (ING) ticks everything they need

With 2.35 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.29 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Diversified company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $16.905 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $16.745. The 52-week range on ING shows that it touched its highest point at $18.52 and its lowest point at $12.64 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $18.90. With its current market cap of 50.62 billion, ING has annualized dividend of $1.18 while the current yield stands at 7.03%. ING paid its most recent dividend on 1723075200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1736726400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.49.

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 ING was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.25%, but this was up by 10.38% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 1.74% while six-month performance fell -7.24%. The stock gained 20.12% in the past year, while it has gained 8.62% so far this year. For the next quarter, that number is 0.41. This implies an EPS growth rate of -6.26% for this year and 0.50% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 2.43% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 9.16%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 3.16 billion ING shares are outstanding with a float of 3.01 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 1.68 million, which was 5.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Tanate Phutrakul as the firm’s CFO and Member of the Executive Board & Management Board Banking, Ms. Ljiljana Cortan serves as its CRO, Member of the Executive Board & Management Board Banking.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.0552 of ING’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 ING since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 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 ING analysts setting a high price target of 21.5 and a low target of 17.3, the average target price over the next 12 months is 19.4. Based on these targets, ING could surge 27.67% to reach the target high and rise by 2.73% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 15.2% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.11839 being high and $2.07092 being low. For ING, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.08087. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0 and the low estimate is $0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.