With 2.07 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.9 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $9.74 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $9.435. The 52-week range on HOPE shows that it touched its highest point at $14.53 and its lowest point at $8.82 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $12.25. With its current market cap of 1.24 billion, HOPE has annualized dividend of $0.56 while the current yield stands at 5.77%. HOPE paid its most recent dividend on 1754006400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1754006400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.92.
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 HOPE was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -6.72%, but this was down by -15.05% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -3.38% while six-month performance fell -17.43%. The stock lost -20.99% in the past year, while it has lost -26.27% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HOPE yields 0.36 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.21. For the next quarter, that number is 0.25. This implies an EPS growth rate of -43.60% for this year and 161.62% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 128.12 million HOPE shares are outstanding with a float of 121.39 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-07-15, short shares totaled 2.78 million, which was 217.0 higher than short shares on 1749772800. In addition to Mr. Kevin Sung Kim J.D. as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Ms. Julianna Balicka serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.87018996 of HOPE’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 HOPE since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 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 HOPE analysts setting a high price target of 14.0 and a low target of 11.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 12.25. Based on these targets, HOPE could surge 44.18% to reach the target high and rise by 13.29% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 26.16% 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 $0.80624 being high and $0.72471 being low. For HOPE, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.77.
