With 0.65 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.12 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $53.595 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $52.14. The 52-week range on WBS shows that it touched its highest point at $63.99 and its lowest point at $39.33 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $69.93. With its current market cap of 8.96 billion, WBS has annualized dividend of $1.60 while the current yield stands at 3.06%. WBS paid its most recent dividend on 1739145600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1739145600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.03.
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 WBS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.38%, but this was down by -5.66% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -4.89% while six-month performance rose 10.27%. The stock gained 5.53% in the past year, while it has lost -5.29% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WBS yields 4.37 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.69. For the next quarter, that number is 1.38. This implies an EPS growth rate of 9.47% for this year and 13.57% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 10.29% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 1.49%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 171.39 million WBS shares are outstanding with a float of 169.70 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 3.8 million, which was 222.00000000000003 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. John R. Ciulla as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Luis R. Massiani serves as its President & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.90265 of WBS’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 WBS since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 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 WBS analysts setting a high price target of 80.0 and a low target of 59.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 69.2. Based on these targets, WBS could surge 52.96% to reach the target high and rise by 12.81% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 32.31% 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 $5.34321 being high and $4.70402 being low. For WBS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.23335. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.53 and the low estimate is $1.35. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.45.
