With 1.02 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.73 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $88.31 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $85.94. The 52-week range on SSB shows that it touched its highest point at $114.26 and its lowest point at $70.68 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $114.60. With its current market cap of 8.87 billion, SSB has annualized dividend of $2.14 while the current yield stands at 2.45%. SSB paid its most recent dividend on 1738886400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1746748800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.74.
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 SSB was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.65%, but this was down by -6.76% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -17.63% while six-month performance fell -9.47%. The stock gained 9.17% in the past year, while it has lost -12.05% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SSB yields 6.34 with Next year EPS estimates of 9.21. For the next quarter, that number is 1.80. This implies an EPS growth rate of -2.46% for this year and 35.41% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 14.77% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 5.39%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 101.48 million SSB shares are outstanding with a float of 100.03 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 4.25 million, which was 419.00000000000006 higher than short shares on 1741910400. In addition to Mr. John C. Corbett as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Richard Murray IV serves as its President & Chief Banking Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.7008 of SSB’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 SSB since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 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 SSB analysts setting a high price target of 130.0 and a low target of 97.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 114.6. Based on these targets, SSB could surge 48.59% to reach the target high and rise by 10.87% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 30.99% 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 $7.05 being high and $6.96 being low. For SSB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.99. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.21 and the low estimate is $2.05. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.12.
