With 0.89 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.02 million shares. The 52-week range on OR shows that it touched its highest point at $25.15 and its lowest point at $15.12 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $26.35. With its current market cap of 4.66 billion, OR has annualized dividend of $0.19 while the current yield stands at 0.75%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.76.
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 OR was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 7.53%, but this was up by 8.56% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 33.58% while six-month performance rose 29.75%. The stock gained 48.24% in the past year, while it has gained 37.35% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for OR yields 0.16 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.75. For the next quarter, that number is 0.17. This implies an EPS growth rate of 37.02% for this year and 5.26% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 187.03 million OR shares are outstanding with a float of 186.92 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for OR since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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.
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 $0.78879 being high and $0.56968 being low. For OR, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.70115. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.32 and the low estimate is $0.24. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.28.
