With 1.12 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.89 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $48.69 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $47.23. The 52-week range on OZK shows that it touched its highest point at $53.64 and its lowest point at $35.71 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $55.67. With its current market cap of 5.42 billion, OZK has annualized dividend of $1.70 while the current yield stands at 3.55%. OZK paid its most recent dividend on 1752192000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1752192000. 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 OZK was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -7.15%, but this was down by -6.14% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 10.64% while six-month performance fell -6.00%. The stock gained 7.39% in the past year, while it has gained 1.57% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for OZK yields 6.16 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.59. For the next quarter, that number is 1.64. This implies an EPS growth rate of 2.60% for this year and 4.54% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 4.14% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 13.22%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 112.64 million OZK shares are outstanding with a float of 107.79 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-07-15, short shares totaled 18.5 million, which was 1643.0001 higher than short shares on 1749772800. In addition to Mr. George G. Gleason II as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Paschall Brannon Hamblen serves as its President.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.97425 of OZK’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 OZK since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 OZK analysts setting a high price target of 67.0 and a low target of 42.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 55.66667. Based on these targets, OZK could surge 40.11% to reach the target high and fall by -12.17% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 16.41% 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 $6.10478 being high and $5.9947 being low. For OZK, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.03473.
