Bank Of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC) does about 40.54M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 29397727 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 295.22B USD. Its current market price is $37.50, marking an increase of 1.05% compared to the previous close of $37.11. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $38.35 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $24.96.
Bank Of America Corp. (BAC) has a 20-day trading average at $36.79 and the current price is -2.22% off the 52-week high compared with 50.24% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $35.10 and its 200-day simple moving average is $31.07. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 1.79%, which increases to 1.79% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 63.07 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $39.15, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 4.21% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on April 04, 2024 when UBS downgraded the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of between $39 and $40. HSBC Securities also downgraded the stock to “Hold” from Buy on March 28, 2024 at a price target of $38-$39. Morgan Stanley upgraded its price target at $32-$41.
Bank Of America Corp. (BAC) stock is down -0.05% over the week and 5.25% over the past month. Its price is 11.38% year-to-date and 35.67% over the past year.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 12/30/2023, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of $0.65 above consensus estimates by $0.02. BAC’s earnings per share are forecast to shrink by -8.30% this year and 9.70% over next year. Expected sales for next quarter are $23 billion, which analysts say will come at $92.68 billion for the current fiscal year and next year at $95.34 billion. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $23.47 billion.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 4.21 percent from here.
Outstanding shares total 7.90B with insiders holding 13.18% of the shares and institutional holders owning 58.92% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 4.32% and return on equity of 9.39%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 12.20 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 10.93. The beta has a value of 1.39. Price to book ratio is 1.12 and price to sales ratio is 1.68.
