With 0.63 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.96 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $11.7467 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $11.54. The 52-week range on HOPE shows that it touched its highest point at $14.53 and its lowest point at $8.82 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $12.25. With its current market cap of 1.49 billion, HOPE has annualized dividend of $0.56 while the current yield stands at 4.82%. HOPE paid its most recent dividend on 1746144000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1746144000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.93.
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 HOPE was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.75%, but this was up by 12.58% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 27.24% while six-month performance fell -3.88%. The stock lost -5.37% in the past year, while it has gained 12.15% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HOPE yields 0.78 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.31. For the next quarter, that number is -0.14. This implies an EPS growth rate of -32.62% for this year and 136.65% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 128.06 million HOPE shares are outstanding with a float of 121.35 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-06-13, short shares totaled 3.08 million, which was 240.0 higher than short shares on 1747267200. In addition to Mr. Kevin Sung Kim J.D. as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Ms. Julianna Balicka serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.8721 of HOPE’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 HOPE since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 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 HOPE analysts setting a high price target of 14.0 and a low target of 11.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 12.25. Based on these targets, HOPE could surge 20.38% to reach the target high and fall by -5.42% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 5.33% 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 $0.80624 being high and $0.72471 being low. For HOPE, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.77.