With 0.66 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.23 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Property & Casualty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $38.085 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $37.15. The 52-week range on ORI shows that it touched its highest point at $39.84 and its lowest point at $27.06 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $41.50. With its current market cap of 9.39 billion, ORI has annualized dividend of $1.08 while the current yield stands at 2.86%. ORI paid its most recent dividend on 1741564800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741564800. 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 ORI was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.90%, but this was up by 0.90% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 5.09% while six-month performance rose 10.41%. The stock gained 38.09% in the past year, while it has gained 11.11% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ORI yields 3.23 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.46. For the next quarter, that number is 0.74. This implies an EPS growth rate of 6.44% for this year and 7.39% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 248.82 million ORI shares are outstanding with a float of 227.32 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 3.52 million, which was 143.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Craig Richard Smiddy as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Francis Joseph Sodaro serves as its Senior VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.72052 of ORI’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 ORI since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 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 ORI analysts setting a high price target of 43.0 and a low target of 40.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 41.5. Based on these targets, ORI could surge 13.22% to reach the target high and rise by 5.32% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 9.27% 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 $2.81946 being high and $2.76819 being low. For ORI, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.79895. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.83 and the low estimate is $0.7. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.79.
