With 1.05 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.29 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $44.89 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $43.73. The 52-week range on WBS shows that it touched its highest point at $63.99 and its lowest point at $39.33 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $64.07. With its current market cap of 7.60 billion, WBS has annualized dividend of $1.60 while the current yield stands at 3.61%. WBS paid its most recent dividend on 1739145600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1739145600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.99.
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 WBS was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -4.99%, but this was down by -12.96% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -23.78% while six-month performance fell -7.84%. The stock lost -3.27% in the past year, while it has lost -19.72% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WBS yields 4.37 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.47. For the next quarter, that number is 1.38. This implies an EPS growth rate of 7.87% for this year and 11.55% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.76% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 1.49%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 171.39 million WBS shares are outstanding with a float of 169.70 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 3.53 million, which was 205.99999000000003 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. John R. Ciulla as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Luis R. Massiani serves as its President & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.91563004 of WBS’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 WBS since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 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 WBS analysts setting a high price target of 72.0 and a low target of 50.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 64.13333. Based on these targets, WBS could surge 62.42% to reach the target high and rise by 12.79% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 44.67% 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 $5.34321 being high and $4.70402 being low. For WBS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.23335. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.53 and the low estimate is $1.33. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.44.
