There is no doubt that Mercury General Corp (MCY) ticks all the boxes.

With 0.68 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.56 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Property & Casualty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $50.395 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $48.28. The 52-week range on MCY shows that it touched its highest point at $80.72 and its lowest point at $37.89 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $70.00. With its current market cap of 2.75 billion, MCY has annualized dividend of $1.27 while the current yield stands at 2.56%. MCY paid its most recent dividend on 1733961600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1733961600. 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 MCY was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.79%, but this was down by -25.26% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -30.85% while six-month performance fell -17.68%. The stock gained 24.07% in the past year, while it has lost -25.26% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for MCY yields 10.08 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.43. For the next quarter, that number is 1.12. This implies an EPS growth rate of 1742.38% for this year and -38.00% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 55.37 million MCY shares are outstanding with a float of 26.55 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 1.74 million, which was 314.00003 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. George Victor Joseph as the firm’s Executive Chairman of the Board, Mr. Gabriel Tirador serves as its CEO & Director.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.43648997 of MCY’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 MCY since 2 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, 1 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 MCY analysts setting a high price target of 70.0 and a low target of 70.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 70.0. Based on these targets, MCY could surge 40.87% to reach the target high and rise by 40.87% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 40.87% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $5.52715 being high and $5.52715 being low. For MCY, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.52715. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is -$0.75 and the low estimate is -$0.75. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.75.