With 0.7 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.98 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $21.535 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $21.015. The 52-week range on PPBI shows that it touched its highest point at $30.28 and its lowest point at $18.06 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $25.25. With its current market cap of 2.06 billion, PPBI has annualized dividend of $1.32 while the current yield stands at 6.21%. PPBI paid its most recent dividend on 1746403200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1746403200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.13.
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 PPBI was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.85%, but this was down by -7.00% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -1.53% while six-month performance fell -22.79%. The stock gained 1.38% in the past year, while it has lost -14.65% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PPBI yields 1.53 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.53. For the next quarter, that number is 0.32. This implies an EPS growth rate of -16.77% for this year and 11.70% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 97.07 million PPBI shares are outstanding with a float of 94.76 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-05-30, short shares totaled 1.37 million, which was 140.99999 higher than short shares on 1745971200. In addition to Mr. Steven R. Gardner as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. Ronald J. Nicolas Jr. serves as its Senior EVP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.95781 of PPBI’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 PPBI since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 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 PPBI analysts setting a high price target of 31.0 and a low target of 22.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 25.7. Based on these targets, PPBI could surge 45.75% to reach the target high and rise by 3.43% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 20.83% 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 $1.61418 being high and $1.53447 being low. For PPBI, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.58429.
