With 0.53 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.54 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Property & Casualty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $84.2 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $81.6. The 52-week range on ROOT shows that it touched its highest point at $181.14 and its lowest point at $36.87 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $124.40. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.23.
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 ROOT was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -7.17%, but this was down by -16.89% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -32.82% while six-month performance fell -24.39%. The stock gained 12.59% in the past year, while it has gained 104.94% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ROOT yields 4.75 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.21. For the next quarter, that number is -0.60. This implies an EPS growth rate of 11.82% for this year and 7.99% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 13.60 million ROOT shares are outstanding with a float of 10.72 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-09-15, short shares totaled 1.77 million, which was 1149.0 higher than short shares on 1755216000. In addition to Mr. Alexander Edward Timm as the firm’s Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman, Mr. Mahtiyar Bonakdarpour serves as its President & CTO.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for ROOT since 7 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 4 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 ROOT analysts setting a high price target of 165.0 and a low target of 105.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 130.6. Based on these targets, ROOT could surge 101.88% to reach the target high and rise by 28.47% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 59.79% 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 -$0.05357726 being high and -$0.05926997 being low. For ROOT, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.0561. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.03. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.39 and the low estimate is $0.25. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.32.
