With 11.37 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 20.1 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Diversified company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $15.98 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $15.76. The 52-week range on BCS shows that it touched its highest point at $16.34 and its lowest point at $8.95 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $18.34. With its current market cap of 56.88 billion, BCS has annualized dividend of $0.44 while the current yield stands at 2.76%. BCS paid its most recent dividend on 1740700800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1740700800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.11.
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 BCS was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -0.56%, but this was up by 0.63% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 20.39% while six-month performance rose 29.95%. The stock gained 71.49% in the past year, while it has gained 19.49% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BCS yields 2.77 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.58. For the next quarter, that number is 0.68. This implies an EPS growth rate of 17.81% for this year and 21.55% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 17.91% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 20.33%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 3.60 billion BCS shares are outstanding with a float of 3.39 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 23.19 million, which was 64.999997 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Coimbatore Sundararajan Venkatakrishnan Ph.D. as the firm’s Group CEO & Executive Director, Ms. Angela Anna Cross serves as its Group Finance Director & Executive Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.06929 of BCS’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 BCS since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 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 BCS analysts setting a high price target of 18.5 and a low target of 14.6, the average target price over the next 12 months is 16.55. Based on these targets, BCS could surge 16.5% to reach the target high and fall by -8.06% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 4.22% 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 $1.66589 being high and $0.99401 being low. For BCS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.40818.
