With 2.12 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.24 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $53.8925 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $49.65. The 52-week range on CMA shows that it touched its highest point at $73.45 and its lowest point at $45.32 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $65.26. With its current market cap of 6.73 billion, CMA has annualized dividend of $2.84 while the current yield stands at 5.54%. CMA paid its most recent dividend on 1741910400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741910400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.94.
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 CMA was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.70%, but this was down by -11.17% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -17.64% while six-month performance fell -11.37%. The stock lost -5.80% in the past year, while it has lost -17.06% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CMA yields 5.02 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.83. For the next quarter, that number is 1.16. This implies an EPS growth rate of 4.28% for this year and 11.45% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 7.82% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -8.69%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 131.41 million CMA shares are outstanding with a float of 129.90 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 5.9 million, which was 450.0 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Curtis Chatman Farmer as the firm’s Chairman, CEO & President, Mr. James J. Herzog serves as its CFO & Senior EVP.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.83889 of CMA’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 CMA since 12 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 3 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 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 CMA analysts setting a high price target of 80.0 and a low target of 55.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 65.95. Based on these targets, CMA could surge 55.95% to reach the target high and rise by 7.21% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 28.56% 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 $5.18092 being high and $5.06705 being low. For CMA, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.10501. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.42 and the low estimate is $1.19. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.28.
