A better buy-in window may exist right now for Cadence Bank (CADE)

With 1.0 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.18 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $30.92 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $30.1. The 52-week range on CADE shows that it touched its highest point at $40.20 and its lowest point at $26.16 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $40.55. With its current market cap of 5.51 billion, CADE has annualized dividend of $1.02 while the current yield stands at 3.40%. CADE paid its most recent dividend on 1741910400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741910400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.90.

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 CADE was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.62%, but this was down by -11.43% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -17.75% while six-month performance fell -5.78%. The stock gained 11.88% in the past year, while it has lost -12.54% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CADE yields 2.77 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.15. For the next quarter, that number is 0.64. This implies an EPS growth rate of 2.55% for this year and 10.82% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 183.53 million CADE shares are outstanding with a float of 180.98 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 5.54 million, which was 302.99999 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. James D. Rollins III as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Christopher A. Bagley serves as its President & Chief Credit Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.86233 of CADE’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 CADE since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 4 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 CADE analysts setting a high price target of 45.0 and a low target of 38.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 40.54545. Based on these targets, CADE could surge 49.35% to reach the target high and rise by 26.12% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 34.57% 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 $2.78149 being high and $2.74073 being low. For CADE, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.76111. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.73 and the low estimate is $0.66. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.7.