With 0.64 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.17 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $77.73 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $74.57. The 52-week range on WAL shows that it touched its highest point at $98.10 and its lowest point at $53.75 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $103.86. With its current market cap of 8.58 billion, WAL has annualized dividend of $1.50 while the current yield stands at 1.93%. WAL paid its most recent dividend on 1739491200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1739491200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.28.
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 WAL was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.88%, but this was down by -4.34% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -7.10% while six-month performance fell -10.23%. The stock gained 24.30% in the past year, while it has lost -7.06% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WAL yields 7.09 with Next year EPS estimates of 10.59. For the next quarter, that number is 1.79. This implies an EPS growth rate of 23.63% for this year and 20.79% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 18.90% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 7.93%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 110.05 million WAL shares are outstanding with a float of 108.75 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 5.24 million, which was 473.99997999999994 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Dale M. Gibbons CPA as the firm’s Interim CEO, CFO, Vice Chairman, & Executive VP, Mr. Kenneth A. Vecchione serves as its CEO, President & Director (Leave Of Absense).
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.90469 of WAL’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 WAL since 9 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 6 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 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 WAL analysts setting a high price target of 118.0 and a low target of 88.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 104.71429. Based on these targets, WAL could surge 51.98% to reach the target high and rise by 13.34% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 34.87% 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 $7.13372 being high and $6.94521 being low. For WAL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $7.05435. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.22 and the low estimate is $1.91. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.08.
