With 17.1 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 15.34 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Diversified company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $69.14 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $66.73. The 52-week range on C shows that it touched its highest point at $84.74 and its lowest point at $53.51 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $92.08. With its current market cap of 126.69 billion, C has annualized dividend of $2.21 while the current yield stands at 3.29%. C paid its most recent dividend on 1738540800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1738540800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.30.
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 C was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -4.75%, but this was down by -17.11% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -6.44% while six-month performance rose 16.01%. The stock gained 17.11% in the past year, while it has lost -4.49% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for C yields 5.94 with Next year EPS estimates of 9.46. For the next quarter, that number is 1.89. This implies an EPS growth rate of 25.26% for this year and 27.21% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 25.11% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -5.82%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 1.88 billion C shares are outstanding with a float of 1.88 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 34.07 million, which was 180.99998999999997 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Ms. Jane Nind Fraser Ph.D. as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Mark A.L. Mason serves as its Chief Financial Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.76679003 of C’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 C since 15 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 10 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 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 C analysts setting a high price target of 116.0 and a low target of 70.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 91.02632. Based on these targets, C could surge 72.54% to reach the target high and rise by 4.12% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 35.4% 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 $6.00918 being high and $5.72114 being low. For C, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.84033. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.91 and the low estimate is $1.71. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.82.
