The time has not yet come to remove your chips from the table: Regency Centers Corporation (REG)

With 1.4 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.08 million shares. During the session, the REIT – Retail company that operates in wider Real Estate sector, reached to the highest price of $74.88 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $73.04. The 52-week range on REG shows that it touched its highest point at $76.53 and its lowest point at $56.51 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $79.35. With its current market cap of 13.52 billion, REG has annualized dividend of $2.71 while the current yield stands at 3.67%. REG paid its most recent dividend on 1734307200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1734307200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.25.

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 REG was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.03%, but this was up by 5.50% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 1.18% while six-month performance rose 6.34%. The stock gained 18.98% in the past year, while it has gained 0.12% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for REG yields 2.11 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.26. For the next quarter, that number is 0.53. This implies an EPS growth rate of 0.17% for this year and 6.95% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 2.01% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 8.16%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 181.36 million REG shares are outstanding with a float of 179.99 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 4.11 million, which was 225.99999999999997 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. Martin E. Stein Jr. as the firm’s Non Independent Executive Chairman of the Board, Ms. Lisa Palmer serves as its President, CEO & Non Independent Director.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 1.01317 of REG’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, REG reported revenue of $360266000.0 and operating income of $124378000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $240413000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.54.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for REG since 10 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 8 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 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 REG analysts setting a high price target of 84.0 and a low target of 75.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 79.42105. Based on these targets, REG could surge 13.48% to reach the target high and rise by 1.32% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 7.3% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.10764 being high and $2.06464 being low. For REG, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.10273. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.56 and the low estimate is $0.49. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.51.