With 1.09 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.75 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Specialty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $8.62 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $8.36. The 52-week range on AMBC shows that it touched its highest point at $18.45 and its lowest point at $7.92 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $17.00. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.11.
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 AMBC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.19%, but this was down by -27.25% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -35.78% while six-month performance fell -21.10%. The stock lost -44.11% in the past year, while it has lost -32.89% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AMBC yields 1.45 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.30. For the next quarter, that number is -0.07. This implies an EPS growth rate of 111.11% for this year and 1400.00% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 46.51 million AMBC shares are outstanding with a float of 42.09 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 2.86 million, which was 615.0 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. Claude L. LeBlanc CPA as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. David Trick serves as its Executive VP, CFO & Treasurer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.92322 of AMBC’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 AMBC since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 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 AMBC analysts setting a high price target of 19.0 and a low target of 15.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 17.0. Based on these targets, AMBC could surge 123.79% to reach the target high and rise by 76.68% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 100.24% 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 $0.66 being high and $0.66 being low. For AMBC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.66. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is -$0.07 and the low estimate is -$0.07. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.07.
