With 5.81 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 11.29 million shares. During the session, the Capital Markets company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $80.61 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $79.17. The 52-week range on SCHW shows that it touched its highest point at $84.50 and its lowest point at $61.01 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $89.32. With its current market cap of 148.41 billion, SCHW has annualized dividend of $1.02 while the current yield stands at 1.28%. SCHW paid its most recent dividend on 1739491200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1739491200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.90.
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 SCHW was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.31%, but this was up by 1.14% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 6.55% while six-month performance rose 23.26%. The stock gained 11.59% in the past year, while it has gained 7.55% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SCHW yields 2.99 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.16. For the next quarter, that number is 0.98. This implies an EPS growth rate of 29.76% for this year and 22.31% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 23.59% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 2.26%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 1.78 billion SCHW shares are outstanding with a float of 1.71 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 17.0 million, which was 94.0 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Charles Robert Schwab as the firm’s Founder & Co-Chairman, Mr. Richard Andrew Wurster C.F.A., CFA, CMT serves as its CEO, President & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.76222 of SCHW’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 SCHW since 17 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 13 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 4 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 SCHW analysts setting a high price target of 108.0 and a low target of 62.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 90.05. Based on these targets, SCHW could surge 35.68% to reach the target high and fall by -22.11% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 13.13% 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 $3.20133 being high and $3.11129 being low. For SCHW, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.16131. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.1 and the low estimate is $0.98. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.03.
