Home Bancshares Inc (NYSE: HOMB) – Time For Strategy Change?

Home Bancshares Inc (NYSE:HOMB) currently has a daily average trading volume of 984.25K but it saw 1837413 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 5.68B USD, the company’s current market price of $28.33 came rising about 2.31 while comparing to the previous closing price of $27.69. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $28.45 and as low as $19.61.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Home Bancshares Inc (HOMB) gives us an average price of $25.42, while its current price level is -0.42% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 44.43% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $24.26 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $23.54. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.93% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 2.46%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 78.90 which implies that the stock is in overbought territory.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Citigroup which initiated the stock as “Neutral” in its note to investors issued on December 01, 2023, recommending a price target of $23 for it. Keefe Bruyette downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Mkt Perform” from “Outperform” on December 13, 2022 while assigning a price target of $28.

Over the week, HOMB’s stock price is moving 6.22% up while it is 21.48% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 11.84% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 22.96%.

Currently, Home Bancshares Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 201.53M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 6.90% and return on equity (ROE) at 10.29%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 14.78 while having a 13.22 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.04. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.47 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 4.05. Its return on asset (ROA) is 1.71% on average.