With 2.65 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.33 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $10.91 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $10.76. The 52-week range on NWG shows that it touched its highest point at $10.96 and its lowest point at $5.16 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $11.80. With its current market cap of 43.35 billion, NWG has annualized dividend of $0.45 while the current yield stands at 4.18%. NWG paid its most recent dividend on 1723161600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1723161600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.26.
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 NWG was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.99%, but this was up by 5.89% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 12.53% while six-month performance rose 13.00%. The stock gained 85.22% in the past year, while it has gained 6.00% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for NWG yields 1.32 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.35. For the next quarter, that number is 0.26. This implies an EPS growth rate of 3.84% for this year and 8.41% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 7.91% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 25.17%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 4.15 billion NWG shares are outstanding with a float of 4.02 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 1.42 million, which was 4.0 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. John-Paul Thwaite as the firm’s Group CEO & Executive Director, Ms. Katie Murray CA serves as its Group CFO & Executive Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.0318 of NWG’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
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Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for NWG since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 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 NWG analysts setting a high price target of 12.51 and a low target of 9.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 10.755. Based on these targets, NWG could surge 16.05% to reach the target high and fall by -16.51% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -0.23% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.03554 being high and $0.9875 being low. For NWG, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.99567.
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