With 1.57 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.49 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $24.94 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $24.46. The 52-week range on AUB shows that it touched its highest point at $44.54 and its lowest point at $22.85 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $40.83. With its current market cap of 3.27 billion, AUB has annualized dividend of $1.32 while the current yield stands at 5.34%. AUB paid its most recent dividend on 1739491200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1739491200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.86.
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 AUB was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -6.15%, but this was down by -24.27% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -35.10% while six-month performance fell -35.92%. The stock lost -22.40% in the past year, while it has lost -34.69% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AUB yields 2.29 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.95. For the next quarter, that number is 0.71. This implies an EPS growth rate of 22.99% for this year and 17.31% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 12.97% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -1.43%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 132.15 million AUB shares are outstanding with a float of 130.27 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 7.61 million, which was 844.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. John C. Asbury as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Robert Michael Gorman serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.64562 of AUB’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 AUB since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 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 AUB analysts setting a high price target of 52.0 and a low target of 32.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 40.83333. Based on these targets, AUB could surge 110.19% to reach the target high and rise by 29.35% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 65.05% 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 $3.07734 being high and $2.83519 being low. For AUB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.926. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.83 and the low estimate is $0.78. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.82.
