Arbor Realty Trust Inc (ABR) Clearly Signals Buy-Into the Stock: Don’t ignore the signals

With 2.7 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 3.35 million shares. During the session, the REIT – Mortgage company that operates in wider Real Estate sector, reached to the highest price of $12.35 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $12.035. The 52-week range on ABR shows that it touched its highest point at $15.94 and its lowest point at $11.43 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $12.62. With its current market cap of 2.29 billion, ABR has annualized dividend of $1.72 while the current yield stands at 14.26%. ABR paid its most recent dividend on 1741305600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741305600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.60.

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 ABR was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.87%, but this was down by -12.35% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -15.61% while six-month performance fell -11.00%. The stock lost -6.66% in the past year, while it has lost -12.92% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ABR yields 1.14 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.31. For the next quarter, that number is 0.29. This implies an EPS growth rate of -31.84% for this year and 10.74% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 189.26 million ABR shares are outstanding with a float of 182.32 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 62.94 million, which was 3321.0 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. Ivan Paul Kaufman as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. Paul Anthony Elenio serves as its Executive VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.66586995 of ABR’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 ABR since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 ABR analysts setting a high price target of 15.0 and a low target of 11.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 12.625. Based on these targets, ABR could surge 24.38% to reach the target high and fall by -4.64% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 4.68% 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 $1.76632 being high and $1.69838 being low. For ABR, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.7275. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.42 and the low estimate is $0.25. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.32.