With 0.52 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.47 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $24.37 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $23.9. The 52-week range on BHLB shows that it touched its highest point at $32.36 and its lowest point at $22.27 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $31.66. With its current market cap of 1.13 billion, BHLB has annualized dividend of $0.72 while the current yield stands at 2.96%. BHLB paid its most recent dividend on 1747267200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1755129600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.66.
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 BHLB was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -5.18%, but this was down by -8.15% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -2.99% while six-month performance fell -16.44%. The stock lost -14.39% in the past year, while it has lost -12.41% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BHLB yields 2.56 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.37. For the next quarter, that number is 0.63. This implies an EPS growth rate of 20.42% for this year and 26.00% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 46.30 million BHLB shares are outstanding with a float of 45.69 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-07-15, short shares totaled 3.3 million, which was 713.0 higher than short shares on 1749772800. In addition to Mr. Nitin J. Mhatre as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Brett Brbovic serves as its Chief Accounting Officer, Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.95232004 of BHLB’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 BHLB since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 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 BHLB analysts setting a high price target of 39.0 and a low target of 28.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 31.65833. Based on these targets, BHLB could surge 60.23% to reach the target high and rise by 15.04% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 30.07% 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 $2.19507 being high and $2.10486 being low. For BHLB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.165. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.88 and the low estimate is $0.72. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.8.