How does Webster Financial Corp (WBS) change from a tortoise to a hare?

With 0.89 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.36 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $60.0735 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $58.86. The 52-week range on WBS shows that it touched its highest point at $63.99 and its lowest point at $39.43 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $65.59. With its current market cap of 10.01 billion, WBS has annualized dividend of $1.60 while the current yield stands at 2.69%. WBS paid its most recent dividend on 1747008000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1747008000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.02.

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 WBS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.03%, but this was up by 10.59% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 42.37% while six-month performance rose 6.34%. The stock gained 7.77% in the past year, while it has gained 38.91% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WBS yields 4.44 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.48. For the next quarter, that number is 1.43. This implies an EPS growth rate of 6.64% for this year and 12.93% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 9.48% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 1.49%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 171.39 million WBS shares are outstanding with a float of 166.83 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-06-13, short shares totaled 4.78 million, which was 283.99998 higher than short shares on 1747267200. In addition to Mr. John R. Ciulla as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Luis R. Massiani serves as its President & COO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.89642 of WBS’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 WBS since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 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 WBS analysts setting a high price target of 72.0 and a low target of 50.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 62.875. Based on these targets, WBS could surge 20.99% to reach the target high and fall by -15.98% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 5.65% 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 $5.34321 being high and $4.70402 being low. For WBS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.23335.

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