Are Smart Investors Making the Right Decision? Stock Yards Bancorp Inc (SYBT)

With 1.23 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.13 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $76.29 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $74.09. The 52-week range on SYBT shows that it touched its highest point at $79.79 and its lowest point at $42.35 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $79.20. With its current market cap of 2.19 billion, SYBT has annualized dividend of $1.22 while the current yield stands at 1.64%. SYBT paid its most recent dividend on 1734307200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1734307200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.87.

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 SYBT was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.31%, but this was up by 3.72% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 11.15% while six-month performance rose 18.96%. The stock gained 41.34% in the past year, while it has gained 3.84% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SYBT yields 3.89 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.50. For the next quarter, that number is 0.99. This implies an EPS growth rate of 7.80% for this year and 7.19% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 29.43 million SYBT shares are outstanding with a float of 26.89 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 2.06 million, which was 699.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. James A. Hillebrand as the firm’s CEO & Chairman of the Board, Mr. Philip S. Poindexter serves as its President & Director.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.60188 of SYBT’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 SYBT since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 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 SYBT analysts setting a high price target of 84.0 and a low target of 76.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 79.2. Based on these targets, SYBT could surge 12.96% to reach the target high and rise by 2.21% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 6.51% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.8384 being high and $3.77826 being low. For SYBT, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.80833. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.05 and the low estimate is $0.98. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.03.