With 1.0 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.15 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $27.31 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $26.39. The 52-week range on HOMB shows that it touched its highest point at $32.90 and its lowest point at $22.42 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $32.29. With its current market cap of 5.41 billion, HOMB has annualized dividend of $0.77 while the current yield stands at 2.81%. HOMB paid its most recent dividend on 1739318400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1739318400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.78.
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 HOMB was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.62%, but this was down by -2.75% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -9.50% while six-month performance rose 0.93%. The stock gained 17.27% in the past year, while it has lost -3.78% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HOMB yields 2.09 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.31. For the next quarter, that number is 0.57. This implies an EPS growth rate of 13.40% for this year and 1.38% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 6.61% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 3.10%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 198.21 million HOMB shares are outstanding with a float of 183.87 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 5.65 million, which was 284.99998 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. John W. Allison as the firm’s Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Mr. Kevin D. Hester serves as its President & Chief Lending Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.74631 of HOMB’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 HOMB since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 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 HOMB analysts setting a high price target of 35.0 and a low target of 28.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 32.0. Based on these targets, HOMB could surge 28.53% to reach the target high and rise by 2.83% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 17.52% 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 $2.06991 being high and $1.98953 being low. For HOMB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.03977. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.59 and the low estimate is $0.56. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.57.
