Stock That Is Worth Exploring Now: M & T Bank Corp (NYSE: MTB)

M & T Bank Corp (NYSE:MTB) does about 1.19M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 727096 shares change hands in Tuesday trading. The company now has a market cap of 24.47B USD. Its current market price is $146.86, marking an increase of 0.81% compared to the previous close of $145.68. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $148.23 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $108.53.

M & T Bank Corp (MTB) has a 20-day trading average at $140.49 and the current price is -0.92% off the 52-week high compared with 35.32% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $140.14 and its 200-day simple moving average is $132.28. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.04%, which increases to 2.16% 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 61.57 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $162.99, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 9.9% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on December 18, 2023 when Deutsche Bank downgraded the stock to “Hold” and issued a price target of $145. Odeon also downgraded the stock to “Hold” from Buy on September 29, 2023 at a price target of $133.65. Argus upgraded its price target at $150.

M & T Bank Corp (MTB) stock is up 6.89% over the week and 3.31% over the past month. Its price is 7.13% year-to-date and 18.35% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 9.9 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 6.45% and return on equity of 9.77%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 9.92 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 9.08. The beta has a value of 0.77. Price to book ratio is 0.97 and price to sales ratio is 1.87.