Taking the lead: Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc (PNFP)

With 0.97 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.59 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $98.86 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $92.66. The 52-week range on PNFP shows that it touched its highest point at $131.91 and its lowest point at $73.62 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $114.64. With its current market cap of 7.33 billion, PNFP has annualized dividend of $0.90 while the current yield stands at 0.95%. PNFP paid its most recent dividend on 1738886400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1746144000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.03.

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 PNFP was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.65%, but this was down by -9.34% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -21.02% while six-month performance fell -4.59%. The stock gained 18.75% in the past year, while it has lost -17.17% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PNFP yields 6.18 with Next year EPS estimates of 8.68. For the next quarter, that number is 1.90. This implies an EPS growth rate of 12.01% for this year and 12.53% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 12.44% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 2.69%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 77.60 million PNFP shares are outstanding with a float of 76.17 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 1.54 million, which was 198.00000000000003 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Robert A. McCabe Jr. as the firm’s Co-Founder & Chairman, Mr. Michael Terry Turner serves as its President, CEO & Director.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.90873003 of PNFP’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 PNFP since 7 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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 PNFP analysts setting a high price target of 135.0 and a low target of 105.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 119.1. Based on these targets, PNFP could surge 42.48% to reach the target high and rise by 10.82% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 25.7% 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 $6.78583 being high and $6.71649 being low. For PNFP, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.7363. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.08 and the low estimate is $1.88. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.98.