With 0.71 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.08 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $10.475 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $10.29. The 52-week range on HOPE shows that it touched its highest point at $14.53 and its lowest point at $8.82 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $11.88. With its current market cap of 1.34 billion, HOPE has annualized dividend of $0.56 while the current yield stands at 5.36%. HOPE paid its most recent dividend on 1746144000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1746144000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.88.
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 HOPE was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.14%, but this was down by -1.88% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 1.75% while six-month performance fell -21.44%. The stock gained 4.82% in the past year, while it has lost -15.05% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HOPE yields 0.78 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.23. For the next quarter, that number is 0.11. This implies an EPS growth rate of -6.71% for this year and 60.46% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 128.06 million HOPE shares are outstanding with a float of 121.35 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-05-30, short shares totaled 3.16 million, which was 246.99999999999997 higher than short shares on 1745971200. In addition to Mr. Kevin Sung Kim J.D. as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Ms. Julianna Balicka serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.87284 of HOPE’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 HOPE since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 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 HOPE analysts setting a high price target of 14.0 and a low target of 10.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 11.875. Based on these targets, HOPE could surge 34.1% to reach the target high and rise by 0.57% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 13.75% 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 $0.80624 being high and $0.72471 being low. For HOPE, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.77. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.25 and the low estimate is $0.24. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.24.
