With 15.51 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 23.72 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $14.63 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $14.4001. The 52-week range on HBAN shows that it touched its highest point at $18.44 and its lowest point at $11.91 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $17.14. With its current market cap of 21.30 billion, HBAN has annualized dividend of $0.62 while the current yield stands at 4.25%. HBAN paid its most recent dividend on 1742256000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1750118400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.92.
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 HBAN was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 8.24%, but this was down by -3.57% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -15.08% while six-month performance fell -6.18%. The stock gained 5.96% in the past year, while it has lost -10.39% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HBAN yields 1.30 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.58. For the next quarter, that number is 0.35. This implies an EPS growth rate of 17.14% for this year and 10.40% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 12.94% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -0.74%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 1.46 billion HBAN shares are outstanding with a float of 1.44 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 53.73 million, which was 369.00000000000006 higher than short shares on 1741910400. In addition to Mr. Stephen D. Steinour as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. Zachary J. Wasserman serves as its CFO & Senior EVP.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.87314004 of HBAN’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 HBAN since 7 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 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 HBAN analysts setting a high price target of 19.0 and a low target of 14.9, the average target price over the next 12 months is 17.13333. Based on these targets, HBAN could surge 30.32% to reach the target high and rise by 2.19% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 17.51% 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 $1.22363 being high and $1.19402 being low. For HBAN, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.20389.
