With 2.45 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.3 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $15.34 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $14.87. The 52-week range on BANC shows that it touched its highest point at $18.08 and its lowest point at $11.52 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $17.18. With its current market cap of 2.38 billion, BANC has annualized dividend of $0.40 while the current yield stands at 2.64%. BANC paid its most recent dividend on 1750032000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1750032000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.69.
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 BANC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.63%, but this was up by 8.30% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 25.46% while six-month performance fell -4.36%. The stock lost -2.13% in the past year, while it has gained 21.04% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BANC yields 0.65 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.61. For the next quarter, that number is 0.26. This implies an EPS growth rate of 126.98% for this year and 36.13% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 54.52% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 58.47%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 155.95 million BANC shares are outstanding with a float of 129.15 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-06-13, short shares totaled 14.64 million, which was 930.0000000000001 higher than short shares on 1747267200. In addition to Mr. Jared M. Wolff J.D. as the firm’s Chairman of the Board,President & CEO, Mr. Joseph Kauder serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.1088201 of BANC’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 BANC since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 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. With BANC analysts setting a high price target of 20.0 and a low target of 15.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 17.0. Based on these targets, BANC could surge 32.19% to reach the target high and fall by -0.86% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 12.36% 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 $0.49195 being high and $0.43947 being low. For BANC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.46571. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.36 and the low estimate is $0.28. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.32.
