With 0.81 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.73 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $84.975 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $83.015. The 52-week range on SSB shows that it touched its highest point at $114.26 and its lowest point at $70.68 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $117.60. With its current market cap of 8.52 billion, SSB has annualized dividend of $2.14 while the current yield stands at 2.55%. SSB paid its most recent dividend on 1738886400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1738886400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.75.
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 SSB was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.72%, but this was down by -9.23% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -15.53% while six-month performance fell -16.23%. The stock gained 7.77% in the past year, while it has lost -15.49% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SSB yields 6.97 with Next year EPS estimates of 9.22. For the next quarter, that number is 0.97. This implies an EPS growth rate of -4.16% for this year and 38.07% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 15.15% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 5.39%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 101.36 million SSB shares are outstanding with a float of 100.03 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 4.39 million, which was 433.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. John C. Corbett as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Richard Murray IV serves as its President & Chief Banking Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.70115 of SSB’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 SSB since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 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 SSB analysts setting a high price target of 130.0 and a low target of 95.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 117.6. Based on these targets, SSB could surge 54.63% to reach the target high and rise by 13.0% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 39.88% 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 $7.05 being high and $6.96 being low. For SSB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.99. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.01 and the low estimate is $1.8. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.9.
