With 0.66 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.5 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Reinsurance company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $21.665 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $21.26. The 52-week range on HG shows that it touched its highest point at $21.68 and its lowest point at $12.44 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $23.83. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.48.
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 HG was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.94%, but this was up by 17.22% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 12.22% while six-month performance rose 16.08%. The stock gained 64.11% in the past year, while it has gained 13.40% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HG yields 3.81 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.24. For the next quarter, that number is 0.17. This implies an EPS growth rate of -20.78% for this year and 45.68% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 64.27 million HG shares are outstanding with a float of 56.49 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 1.83 million, which was 179.99999999999997 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Ms. Giuseppina Carmela Albo as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Craig William Howie CPA serves as its Group CFO & Chief Investment Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.75899005 of HG’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 HG 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 HG analysts setting a high price target of 27.0 and a low target of 20.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 23.83333. Based on these targets, HG could surge 25.12% to reach the target high and fall by -7.32% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 10.44% 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 $4.1917 being high and $3.48196 being low. For HG, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.86047. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.03 and the low estimate is $0.93. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.97.
