With 0.65 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.6 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $31.595 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $30.89. The 52-week range on WSBC shows that it touched its highest point at $37.36 and its lowest point at $25.56 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $40.86. With its current market cap of 2.96 billion, WSBC has annualized dividend of $1.46 while the current yield stands at 4.72%. WSBC paid its most recent dividend on 1741564800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741564800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.78.
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 WSBC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -5.50%, but this was down by -16.61% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -12.75% while six-month performance rose 1.74%. The stock gained 4.35% in the past year, while it has lost -4.98% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WSBC yields 2.24 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.88. For the next quarter, that number is 0.57. This implies an EPS growth rate of 40.88% for this year and 17.55% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 95.68 million WSBC shares are outstanding with a float of 92.97 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 3.53 million, which was 369.00000000000006 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. Jeffrey H. Jackson as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Daniel K. Weiss Jr. serves as its Senior Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.51475 of WSBC’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 WSBC 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 WSBC analysts setting a high price target of 45.0 and a low target of 36.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 40.85714. Based on these targets, WSBC could surge 45.54% to reach the target high and rise by 16.43% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 32.14% 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 $2.17807 being high and $2.09777 being low. For WSBC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.14796. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.97 and the low estimate is $0.81. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.87.
