With 2.94 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.84 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Diversified company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $11.57 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $11.3242. The 52-week range on BBVA shows that it touched its highest point at $12.20 and its lowest point at $9.23 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $12.84. With its current market cap of 65.23 billion, BBVA has annualized dividend of $0.73 while the current yield stands at 6.47%. BBVA paid its most recent dividend on 1728432000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1728432000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.28.
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 BBVA was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.16%, but this was up by 16.19% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 16.31% while six-month performance rose 7.59%. The stock gained 21.54% in the past year, while it has gained 16.67% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BBVA yields 1.80 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.68. For the next quarter, that number is 0.35. This implies an EPS growth rate of -5.97% for this year and 2.21% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -0.58% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 28.33%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 5.75 billion BBVA shares are outstanding with a float of 5.75 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 3.13 million, which was 5.0 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. Carlos Torres Vila as the firm’s Group Executive Chairman, Mr. Onur Genc serves as its CEO & Executive Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.03818 of BBVA’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 BBVA since 7 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 2 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 BBVA analysts setting a high price target of 13.53 and a low target of 11.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 12.515. Based on these targets, BBVA could surge 19.31% to reach the target high and rise by 1.41% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 10.36% 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 $1.7595 being high and $1.71809 being low. For BBVA, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.7388.
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