With 1.88 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.33 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $71.82 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $67.75. The 52-week range on WAL shows that it touched its highest point at $98.10 and its lowest point at $56.70 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $93.00. With its current market cap of 7.22 billion, WAL has annualized dividend of $1.50 while the current yield stands at 2.18%. WAL paid its most recent dividend on 1739491200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1739491200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.33.
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 WAL was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.98%, but this was down by -14.67% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -25.64% while six-month performance fell -19.68%. The stock gained 19.60% in the past year, while it has lost -17.76% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WAL yields 7.09 with Next year EPS estimates of 10.49. For the next quarter, that number is 2.05. This implies an EPS growth rate of 22.13% for this year and 21.14% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 18.65% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 7.93%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 110.40 million WAL shares are outstanding with a float of 108.75 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 4.25 million, which was 383.99998 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Dale M. Gibbons CPA as the firm’s Interim CEO, CFO, Vice Chairman, & Executive VP, Mr. Kenneth A. Vecchione serves as its CEO, President & Director (Leave Of Absense).
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.90454 of WAL’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 WAL since 9 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 6 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 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 WAL analysts setting a high price target of 112.0 and a low target of 80.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 93.85714. Based on these targets, WAL could surge 63.03% to reach the target high and rise by 16.45% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 36.62% 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 $7.13372 being high and $6.94521 being low. For WAL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $7.05435. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.42 and the low estimate is $2.17. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.3.
