There is no way HDFC Bank Ltd. ADR (HDB) can keep these numbers up

With 1.37 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.73 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $62.02 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $61.62. The 52-week range on HDB shows that it touched its highest point at $68.50 and its lowest point at $52.16 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $69.27. With its current market cap of 157.98 billion, HDB has annualized dividend of $0.70 while the current yield stands at 1.12%. HDB paid its most recent dividend on 1683849600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1715126400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.93.

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 HDB was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.40%, but this was down by -0.05% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -0.90% while six-month performance rose 6.15%. The stock gained 11.68% in the past year, while it has lost -2.99% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HDB yields 3.26 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.40. For the next quarter, that number is 0.77. This implies an EPS growth rate of 6.36% for this year and 11.40% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 10.76% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 12.89%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 2.55 billion HDB shares are outstanding with a float of 2.55 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 18.95 million, which was 74.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Sashidhar Jagdishan as the firm’s MD, CEO & Director, Mr. Bhavesh Chandulal Zaveri serves as its Group Head of Operations, ATM, Cash Management Product & Executive Director.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.14088 of HDB’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

Analysts Ratings:

In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With HDB analysts setting a high price target of 77.15 and a low target of 68.6, the average target price over the next 12 months is 74.9375. Based on these targets, HDB could surge 24.54% to reach the target high and rise by 10.73% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 20.96% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $277.48662 being high and $206.97022 being low. For HDB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $248.1811. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.52 and the low estimate is $0.52. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.52.