With 1.61 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.91 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $84.38 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $82.68. The 52-week range on WAL shows that it touched its highest point at $98.10 and its lowest point at $57.05 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $97.00. With its current market cap of 9.19 billion, WAL has annualized dividend of $1.51 while the current yield stands at 1.81%. WAL paid its most recent dividend on 1747267200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1747267200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.33.
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 WAL was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.65%, but this was up by 9.62% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 21.12% while six-month performance fell -9.94%. The stock lost -0.40% in the past year, while it has gained 7.80% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WAL yields 7.60 with Next year EPS estimates of 10.35. For the next quarter, that number is 2.13. This implies an EPS growth rate of 18.79% for this year and 22.84% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 17.33% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 7.93%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 110.40 million WAL shares are outstanding with a float of 104.75 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-07-15, short shares totaled 4.44 million, which was 401.99999999999994 higher than short shares on 1749772800. In addition to Mr. Kenneth A. Vecchione as the firm’s CEO, President & Director, Mr. Dale M. Gibbons C.P.A. serves as its Vice Chairman & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.90418 of WAL’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 WAL since 9 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 6 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 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 WAL analysts setting a high price target of 105.0 and a low target of 85.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 96.46667. Based on these targets, WAL could surge 26.19% to reach the target high and rise by 2.15% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 15.93% 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 $7.13372 being high and $6.94521 being low. For WAL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $7.05435.
