With 0.78 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.8 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $36.6801 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $36.0201. The 52-week range on BKU shows that it touched its highest point at $44.45 and its lowest point at $28.21 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $42.02. With its current market cap of 2.74 billion, BKU has annualized dividend of $1.20 while the current yield stands at 3.29%. BKU paid its most recent dividend on 1752192000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1752192000. 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 BKU was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -6.03%, but this was down by -0.95% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 11.49% while six-month performance fell -10.61%. The stock lost -4.45% in the past year, while it has lost -4.33% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BKU yields 3.41 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.61. For the next quarter, that number is 0.88. This implies an EPS growth rate of 11.28% for this year and 5.23% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 9.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -0.32%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 75.22 million BKU shares are outstanding with a float of 74.49 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-07-15, short shares totaled 3.21 million, which was 427.00000000000006 higher than short shares on 1749772800. In addition to Mr. Rajinder P. Singh as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. Thomas M. Cornish serves as its Chief Operating Officer.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for BKU since 10 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 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 BKU analysts setting a high price target of 45.0 and a low target of 36.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 41.91667. Based on these targets, BKU could surge 23.39% to reach the target high and fall by -1.29% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 14.93% 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 $3.02678 being high and $2.86535 being low. For BKU, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.9158. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.76. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.95 and the low estimate is $0.79. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.86.
