With 0.53 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.45 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $133.895 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $131.43. The 52-week range on WTFC shows that it touched its highest point at $142.04 and its lowest point at $89.68 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $148.38. With its current market cap of 8.83 billion, WTFC has annualized dividend of $1.80 while the current yield stands at 1.36%. WTFC paid its most recent dividend on 1730937600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1730937600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.19.
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 WTFC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -0.35%, but this was up by 5.00% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 17.53% while six-month performance rose 22.72%. The stock gained 33.75% in the past year, while it has gained 6.51% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WTFC yields 10.31 with Next year EPS estimates of 10.94. For the next quarter, that number is 2.48. This implies an EPS growth rate of -0.11% for this year and 6.22% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 5.01% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 11.32%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 66.50 million WTFC shares are outstanding with a float of 65.39 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 0.84 million, which was 126.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Timothy S. Crane as the firm’s CEO, President & Director, Mr. David Alan Dykstra serves as its Vice Chairman & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.92942 of WTFC’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 WTFC since 8 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 7 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 WTFC analysts setting a high price target of 158.0 and a low target of 130.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 148.38461. Based on these targets, WTFC could surge 18.95% to reach the target high and fall by -2.13% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 11.71% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $10.19389 being high and $9.96403 being low. For WTFC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $10.12393. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.72 and the low estimate is $2.32. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.54.
