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With 1.77 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.6 million shares. During the session, the REIT – Mortgage company that operates in wider Real Estate sector, reached to the highest price of $5.1 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $4.99. The 52-week range on RC shows that it touched its highest point at $9.53 and its lowest point at $4.74 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $5.50. With its current market cap of 815.76 million, RC has annualized dividend of $1.10 while the current yield stands at 22.00%. RC paid its most recent dividend on 1735603200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1743379200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.28.

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 RC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.20%, but this was down by -25.60% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -30.36% while six-month performance fell -40.12%. The stock lost -44.87% in the past year, while it has lost -26.69% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for RC yields -2.69 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.74. For the next quarter, that number is 0.14. This implies an EPS growth rate of 861.22% for this year and 9.36% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 162.79 million RC shares are outstanding with a float of 160.89 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 26.45 million, which was 1620.9999 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. Andrew Ahlborn CPA as the firm’s CFO & Secretary, Mr. Gary T. Taylor serves as its Chief Operating Officer.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for RC since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 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 RC analysts setting a high price target of 7.0 and a low target of 4.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 5.5. Based on these targets, RC could surge 40.0% to reach the target high and fall by -20.0% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 10.0% 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 $0.27955 being high and $0.25334 being low. For RC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.27081. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.18 and the low estimate is $0.13. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.16.