Get in on Hope Bancorp Inc’s (HOPE) buy-in window today!

With 0.99 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.71 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $11.88 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $11.545. The 52-week range on HOPE shows that it touched its highest point at $14.53 and its lowest point at $9.80 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $13.60. With its current market cap of 1.41 billion, HOPE has annualized dividend of $0.56 while the current yield stands at 4.79%. HOPE paid its most recent dividend on 1730937600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1730937600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.14.

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 HOPE was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.55%, but this was down by -6.03% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -6.34% while six-month performance fell -9.88%. The stock lost -1.27% in the past year, while it has lost -4.96% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HOPE yields 0.82 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.28. For the next quarter, that number is 0.12. This implies an EPS growth rate of 6.83% for this year and 45.66% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 120.76 million HOPE shares are outstanding with a float of 114.64 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 2.29 million, which was 190.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Kevin Sung Kim J.D. as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Ms. Julianna Balicka serves as its Executive VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.91166997 of HOPE’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 HOPE since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 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 HOPE analysts setting a high price target of 14.5 and a low target of 13.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 13.8. Based on these targets, HOPE could surge 24.14% to reach the target high and rise by 11.3% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 18.15% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.80624 being high and $0.72471 being low. For HOPE, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.77. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.29 and the low estimate is $0.23. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.25.