With 3.43 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.67 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $67.64 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $66.33. The 52-week range on CMA shows that it touched its highest point at $73.45 and its lowest point at $48.12 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $64.79. With its current market cap of 8.87 billion, CMA has annualized dividend of $2.84 while the current yield stands at 4.21%. CMA paid its most recent dividend on 1749772800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1749772800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.96.
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 CMA was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 8.11%, but this was up by 15.89% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 29.00% while six-month performance rose 7.64%. The stock gained 9.10% in the past year, while it has gained 32.03% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CMA yields 5.20 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.65. For the next quarter, that number is 1.31. This implies an EPS growth rate of 4.64% for this year and 7.47% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 6.61% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -8.69%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 131.41 million CMA shares are outstanding with a float of 130.24 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-06-30, short shares totaled 5.41 million, which was 411.99997 higher than short shares on 1748563200. In addition to Mr. Curtis Chatman Farmer as the firm’s Chairman, CEO & President, Mr. James J. Herzog serves as its CFO & Senior EVP.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.88813 of CMA’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 CMA since 12 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 3 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 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 CMA analysts setting a high price target of 75.0 and a low target of 50.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 64.8. Based on these targets, CMA could surge 11.14% to reach the target high and fall by -25.9% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -3.97% 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 $5.18092 being high and $5.06705 being low. For CMA, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.10501.
