With 4.07 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.19 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $15.085 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $14.515. The 52-week range on BANC shows that it touched its highest point at $18.08 and its lowest point at $11.52 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $17.45. With its current market cap of 2.30 billion, BANC has annualized dividend of $0.40 while the current yield stands at 2.74%. BANC paid its most recent dividend on 1750032000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1750032000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.70.
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 BANC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.08%, but this was up by 4.96% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 6.19% while six-month performance fell -9.21%. The stock lost -5.63% in the past year, while it has lost -0.61% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BANC yields 0.65 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.63. For the next quarter, that number is 0.31. This implies an EPS growth rate of 116.14% for this year and 45.22% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 54.52% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 58.47%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 157.41 million BANC shares are outstanding with a float of 129.15 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-07-15, short shares totaled 13.91 million, which was 881.99995 higher than short shares on 1749772800. In addition to Mr. Jared M. Wolff J.D. as the firm’s Chairman of the Board,President & CEO, Mr. Joseph Kauder serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.10457 of BANC’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 BANC since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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 BANC analysts setting a high price target of 21.0 and a low target of 15.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 17.36364. Based on these targets, BANC could surge 43.93% to reach the target high and rise by 2.81% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 19.01% 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 $0.49195 being high and $0.43947 being low. For BANC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.46571. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.37 and the low estimate is $0.3. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.34.
