With 55288.0 shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.13 million shares. During the session, the Credit Services company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $19.5 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $19.0. The 52-week range on FOA shows that it touched its highest point at $32.40 and its lowest point at $4.10 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $22.50. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.43.
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 FOA was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.21%, but this was down by -16.98% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -29.39% while six-month performance rose 73.76%. The stock gained 204.57% in the past year, while it has lost -31.47% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FOA yields -3.31 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.40. For the next quarter, that number is 0.42. This implies an EPS growth rate of 358.23% for this year and 23.84% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 90.05% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -3.64%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 9.93 million FOA shares are outstanding with a float of 3.81 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 0.73 million, which was 681.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Brian L. Libman as the firm’s Founder & Chairman of the Board, Mr. Graham A. Fleming serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.55021 of FOA’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With FOA analysts setting a high price target of 22.5 and a low target of 22.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 22.5. Based on these targets, FOA could surge 16.76% to reach the target high and rise by 16.76% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 16.76% 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 $0.76053 being high and $0.76053 being low. For FOA, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.76053. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.61 and the low estimate is $0.61. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.61.
