With 5.41 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 8.66 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $22.26 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $21.875. The 52-week range on RF shows that it touched its highest point at $27.96 and its lowest point at $17.72 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $26.55. With its current market cap of 19.86 billion, RF has annualized dividend of $0.99 while the current yield stands at 4.51%. RF paid its most recent dividend on 1740960000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1740960000. 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 RF was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.15%, but this was down by -6.20% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -8.01% while six-month performance fell -4.32%. The stock gained 9.92% in the past year, while it has lost -6.76% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for RF yields 1.93 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.48. For the next quarter, that number is 0.51. This implies an EPS growth rate of 6.42% for this year and 9.97% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.84% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 5.13%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 908.48 million RF shares are outstanding with a float of 902.39 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 44.08 million, which was 486.99997 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. John M. Turner Jr. as the firm’s President, CEO & Chairman, Mr. David Jackson Turner Jr. serves as its Senior EVP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.82922 of RF’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 RF since 16 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 9 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 7 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 RF analysts setting a high price target of 31.0 and a low target of 24.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 26.69048. Based on these targets, RF could surge 41.36% to reach the target high and rise by 9.44% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 21.71% 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 $2.04633 being high and $1.90017 being low. For RF, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.0171. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.62 and the low estimate is $0.54. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.57.
