With 0.83 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.28 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $44.34 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $42.9. The 52-week range on OZK shows that it touched its highest point at $53.64 and its lowest point at $37.43 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $53.88. With its current market cap of 4.87 billion, OZK has annualized dividend of $1.20 while the current yield stands at 2.79%. OZK paid its most recent dividend on 1736812800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1736812800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.04.
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 OZK was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -4.22%, but this was down by -19.13% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -9.14% while six-month performance rose 6.90%. The stock lost -1.11% in the past year, while it has lost -3.57% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for OZK yields 6.14 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.62. For the next quarter, that number is 1.41. This implies an EPS growth rate of -2.79% for this year and 10.98% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 2.84% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 13.22%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 113.15 million OZK shares are outstanding with a float of 107.79 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 16.79 million, which was 1478.0 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. George G. Gleason II as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Paschall Brannon Hamblen serves as its President.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.95625 of OZK’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 OZK since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 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 OZK analysts setting a high price target of 65.0 and a low target of 40.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 53.875. Based on these targets, OZK could surge 51.37% to reach the target high and fall by -6.85% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 25.47% 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 $6.10478 being high and $5.9947 being low. For OZK, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.03473.
