With 54.55 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 48.94 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $11.88 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $11.38. The 52-week range on NU shows that it touched its highest point at $16.15 and its lowest point at $9.67 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $13.98. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.06.
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 NU was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 8.49%, but this was down by -16.06% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -4.09% while six-month performance fell -21.98%. The stock lost -1.03% in the past year, while it has gained 11.00% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for NU yields 0.40 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.78. For the next quarter, that number is 0.12. This implies an EPS growth rate of 36.69% for this year and 40.75% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 3.68 billion NU shares are outstanding with a float of 3.15 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 136.0 million, which was 282.99998 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. David Velez-Osomo as the firm’s Founder, Chairman & CEO, Mr. Youssef Lahrech serves as its COO & President.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.82191 of NU’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 NU since 9 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 8 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 NU analysts setting a high price target of 18.9 and a low target of 9.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 14.32632. Based on these targets, NU could surge 64.35% to reach the target high and fall by -21.74% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 24.58% 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 $0.4447 being high and $0.40428 being low. For NU, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.42449. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.14 and the low estimate is $0.12. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.13.
