A History of Outperforming Analyst Forecasts and Beating the Odds: Northern Trust Corp (NTRS)

With 4.31 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.84 million shares. During the session, the Asset Management company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $124.15 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $118.53. The 52-week range on NTRS shows that it touched its highest point at $123.31 and its lowest point at $80.81 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $106.96. With its current market cap of 24.08 billion, NTRS has annualized dividend of $3.00 while the current yield stands at 2.42%. NTRS paid its most recent dividend on 1749168000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1749168000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.25.

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 NTRS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 12.93%, but this was up by 17.04% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 21.85% while six-month performance rose 23.17%. The stock gained 20.78% in the past year, while it has gained 49.59% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for NTRS yields 10.71 with Next year EPS estimates of 8.59. For the next quarter, that number is 2.02. This implies an EPS growth rate of -17.91% for this year and 7.08% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -1.45% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 8.07%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 194.54 million NTRS shares are outstanding with a float of 191.21 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-05-30, short shares totaled 6.51 million, which was 335.0 higher than short shares on 1745971200. In addition to Mr. Michael Gerard O’Grady as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Peter B. Cherecwich serves as its Executive VP & COO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.87044996 of NTRS’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 NTRS since 11 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 2 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 NTRS analysts setting a high price target of 128.0 and a low target of 89.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 107.17857. Based on these targets, NTRS could surge 3.39% to reach the target high and fall by -28.11% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -13.43% 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 $7.93276 being high and $7.68519 being low. For NTRS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $7.79866.

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