With 1.03 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.7 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $33.5 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $32.675. The 52-week range on UCB shows that it touched its highest point at $35.38 and its lowest point at $24.04 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $36.57. With its current market cap of 3.94 billion, UCB has annualized dividend of $0.94 while the current yield stands at 2.84%. UCB paid its most recent dividend on 1734307200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1734307200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.94.
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 UCB was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.30%, but this was up by 2.16% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 15.64% while six-month performance rose 6.37%. The stock gained 13.89% in the past year, while it has gained 2.29% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for UCB yields 2.04 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.69. For the next quarter, that number is 0.56. This implies an EPS growth rate of 6.32% for this year and 10.15% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 119.36 million UCB shares are outstanding with a float of 118.44 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 4.1 million, which was 343.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Herbert Lynn Harton as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Richard William Bradshaw serves as its President & Chief Banking Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.8684 of UCB’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With UCB analysts setting a high price target of 39.0 and a low target of 35.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 36.57143. Based on these targets, UCB could surge 18.0% to reach the target high and rise by 5.9% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 10.65% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.27013 being high and $2.20987 being low. For UCB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.24.
