With 0.88 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.92 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $38.47 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $37.935. The 52-week range on AUB shows that it touched its highest point at $44.54 and its lowest point at $30.43 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $46.60. With its current market cap of 3.44 billion, AUB has annualized dividend of $1.30 while the current yield stands at 3.39%. AUB paid its most recent dividend on 1731024000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731024000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.89.
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 AUB was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.62%, but this was up by 2.98% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 1.91% while six-month performance rose 4.50%. The stock gained 12.14% in the past year, while it has gained 1.19% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AUB yields 2.29 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.11. For the next quarter, that number is 0.72. This implies an EPS growth rate of 27.08% for this year and 18.12% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 89.77 million AUB shares are outstanding with a float of 88.77 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 4.9 million, which was 546.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. John C. Asbury as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Robert Michael Gorman serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.76911 of AUB’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 AUB since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 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 AUB analysts setting a high price target of 52.0 and a low target of 41.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 46.6. Based on these targets, AUB could surge 35.66% to reach the target high and rise by 6.97% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 21.58% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.07734 being high and $2.83519 being low. For AUB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.926. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.86 and the low estimate is $0.02. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.67.
