Is Five Star Bancorp (FSBC) positioned for future growth?

With 66798.0 shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 66140.0 shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $26.69 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $25.8. The 52-week range on FSBC shows that it touched its highest point at $35.12 and its lowest point at $21.35 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $34.62. With its current market cap of 563.31 million, FSBC has annualized dividend of $0.80 while the current yield stands at 3.03%. FSBC paid its most recent dividend on 1738540800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1738540800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.52.

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 FSBC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.01%, but this was down by -7.30% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -12.26% while six-month performance fell -14.00%. The stock gained 22.95% in the past year, while it has lost -12.23% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FSBC yields 2.27 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.08. For the next quarter, that number is 0.59. This implies an EPS growth rate of 15.71% for this year and 17.69% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 21.32 million FSBC shares are outstanding with a float of 14.73 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 0.16 million, which was 74.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. James Eugene Beckwith as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Don J. Kurtze serves as its Executive VP & San Francisco Bay Area President.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.55992 of FSBC’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 FSBC since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 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 FSBC analysts setting a high price target of 38.5 and a low target of 32.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 34.625. Based on these targets, FSBC could surge 45.78% to reach the target high and rise by 21.17% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 31.11% 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 $2.24273 being high and $2.16227 being low. For FSBC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.2025.