With 0.98 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.86 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $44.425 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $42.765. The 52-week range on ZION shows that it touched its highest point at $63.22 and its lowest point at $39.05 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $58.89. With its current market cap of 6.40 billion, ZION has annualized dividend of $1.68 while the current yield stands at 3.87%. ZION paid its most recent dividend on 1739404800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1739404800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.89.
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 ZION was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -5.18%, but this was down by -10.10% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -25.50% while six-month performance fell -13.42%. The stock gained 7.30% in the past year, while it has lost -20.07% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ZION yields 4.96 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.71. For the next quarter, that number is 1.19. This implies an EPS growth rate of 6.87% for this year and 7.95% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 7.17% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 3.54%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 147.87 million ZION shares are outstanding with a float of 145.20 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 4.8 million, which was 325.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Harris Henry Simmons as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Scott J. McLean serves as its President, COO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.79195 of ZION’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 ZION since 13 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 11 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 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 ZION analysts setting a high price target of 65.0 and a low target of 52.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 58.68421. Based on these targets, ZION could surge 49.91% to reach the target high and rise by 19.93% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 35.34% 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 $4.99658 being high and $4.70444 being low. For ZION, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.88577. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.49 and the low estimate is $1.19. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.31.
