With 1.04 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.38 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $32.15 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $31.56. The 52-week range on AUB shows that it touched its highest point at $44.54 and its lowest point at $22.85 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $39.14. With its current market cap of 4.52 billion, AUB has annualized dividend of $1.34 while the current yield stands at 4.23%. AUB paid its most recent dividend on 1747958400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1754265600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.87.
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 AUB was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -4.20%, but this was down by -2.94% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 14.44% while six-month performance fell -15.13%. The stock lost -16.31% in the past year, while it has lost -22.70% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AUB yields 2.06 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.79. For the next quarter, that number is 0.85. This implies an EPS growth rate of 14.25% for this year and 21.05% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 14.01% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -1.43%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 141.69 million AUB shares are outstanding with a float of 141.16 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-07-15, short shares totaled 6.77 million, which was 478.0 higher than short shares on 1749772800. In addition to Mr. John C. Asbury as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Robert Michael Gorman serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for AUB since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 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 AUB analysts setting a high price target of 45.0 and a low target of 33.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 39.14286. Based on these targets, AUB could surge 41.96% to reach the target high and rise by 4.1% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 23.48% 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 $3.07734 being high and $2.83519 being low. For AUB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.926. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.7. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.96 and the low estimate is $0.77. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.86.
