With 0.53 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.74 million shares. During the session, the Capital Markets company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $20.81 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $20.28. The 52-week range on PWP shows that it touched its highest point at $27.03 and its lowest point at $11.68 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $28.00. With its current market cap of 1.79 billion, PWP has annualized dividend of $0.28 while the current yield stands at 1.36%. PWP paid its most recent dividend on 1739836800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1739836800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.63.
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 PWP was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 7.48%, but this was down by -10.34% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -10.22% while six-month performance rose 4.79%. The stock gained 43.18% in the past year, while it has lost -13.76% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PWP yields -1.59 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.72. For the next quarter, that number is 0.21. This implies an EPS growth rate of 37.76% for this year and 30.25% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 59.18 million PWP shares are outstanding with a float of 55.58 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 2.95 million, which was 495.0 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Peter Amory Weinberg A.C.A. as the firm’s Co-Founder, Founding Partner & Chairman, Mr. Andrew Bednar J.D. serves as its CEO, Partner of New York & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.89825 of PWP’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-12-31, PWP reported revenue of $225672000.0 and operating income of $21369000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $26430000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.3.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for PWP 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 PWP analysts setting a high price target of 33.0 and a low target of 20.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 28.0. Based on these targets, PWP could surge 60.51% to reach the target high and fall by -2.72% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 36.19% 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 $0.93 being high and $0.88 being low. For PWP, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.9. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.3 and the low estimate is $0.27. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.28.
