Taking on analysts’ expectations and winning: ICICI Bank Ltd. ADR (IBN)

With 3.46 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 4.12 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $28.87 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $28.67. The 52-week range on IBN shows that it touched its highest point at $32.14 and its lowest point at $23.54 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $34.83. With its current market cap of 101.22 billion, IBN has annualized dividend of $0.24 while the current yield stands at 0.83%. IBN paid its most recent dividend on 1723420800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1723420800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.99.

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 IBN was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.54%, but this was down by -4.85% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -8.26% while six-month performance fell -1.51%. The stock gained 17.64% in the past year, while it has lost -3.99% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for IBN yields 1.60 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.67. For the next quarter, that number is 0.38. This implies an EPS growth rate of 9.60% for this year and 9.52% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 10.96% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 74.44%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 3.53 billion IBN shares are outstanding with a float of 3.53 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 24.23 million, which was 69.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Sandeep Bakhshi B.E. as the firm’s MD, CEO & Executive Director, Mr. Anindya Banerjee serves as its Group CFO & Head of Investor Relations.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.1943 of IBN’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

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Analysts Ratings:

In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With IBN 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 36.575. Based on these targets, IBN could surge 36.03% to reach the target high and rise by 22.08% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 27.57% 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 $115.92432 being high and $112.6122 being low. For IBN, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $115.09629.

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