This trade activity should not be overlooked: Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corp (PGC)

With 78842.0 shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.1 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $26.6125 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $25.82. The 52-week range on PGC shows that it touched its highest point at $37.88 and its lowest point at $20.30 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $36.75. With its current market cap of 459.08 million, PGC has annualized dividend of $0.20 while the current yield stands at 0.77%. PGC paid its most recent dividend on 1738800000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1738800000. 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 PGC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.88%, but this was down by -10.89% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -16.88% while six-month performance fell -12.54%. The stock gained 13.68% in the past year, while it has lost -18.60% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PGC yields 1.86 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.89. For the next quarter, that number is 0.51. This implies an EPS growth rate of 40.99% for this year and 49.12% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 17.59 million PGC shares are outstanding with a float of 14.70 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 0.55 million, which was 314.00003 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Douglas L. Kennedy as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Frank A. Cavallaro CPA serves as its Senior EVP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.79584 of PGC’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 PGC since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 PGC analysts setting a high price target of 40.0 and a low target of 33.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 37.75. Based on these targets, PGC could surge 53.32% to reach the target high and rise by 26.49% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 44.69% 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 $1.76613 being high and $1.75387 being low. For PGC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.76. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.62 and the low estimate is $0.59. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.61.