With 0.55 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.49 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $101.0 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $94.56. The 52-week range on WTFC shows that it touched its highest point at $142.04 and its lowest point at $89.10 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $139.62. With its current market cap of 6.51 billion, WTFC has annualized dividend of $1.85 while the current yield stands at 1.90%. WTFC paid its most recent dividend on 1738800000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1746662400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.82.
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 WTFC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.57%, but this was down by -11.32% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -24.11% while six-month performance fell -7.71%. The stock lost -4.09% in the past year, while it has lost -21.95% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WTFC yields 10.31 with Next year EPS estimates of 11.02. For the next quarter, that number is 2.49. This implies an EPS growth rate of 0.97% for this year and 5.87% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 4.90% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 11.32%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 66.50 million WTFC shares are outstanding with a float of 65.64 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 1.84 million, which was 276.0 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Timothy S. Crane as the firm’s CEO, President & Director, Mr. David Alan Dykstra serves as its Vice Chairman & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.96192 of WTFC’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 WTFC since 8 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 7 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 WTFC analysts setting a high price target of 152.0 and a low target of 107.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 139.92308. Based on these targets, WTFC could surge 56.15% to reach the target high and rise by 9.92% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 43.75% 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 $10.19389 being high and $9.96403 being low. For WTFC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $10.12393. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.72 and the low estimate is $2.37. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.56.
