Heritage Insurance Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HRTG) does about 465.89K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 681208 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 433.25M USD. Its current market price is $14.14, marking a decrease of -6.54% compared to the previous close of $15.13. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $15.27 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $4.28. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $13 and a low of $12.
Heritage Insurance Holdings Inc. (HRTG) has a 20-day trading average at $9.80 and the current price is -7.40% off the 52-week high compared with 230.37% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $8.23 and its 200-day simple moving average is $7.99. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 9.60%, which decreases to 8.07% 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 77.71 to suggest the stock is overbought.
The consensus objective for the share price is $12.50, suggesting that the stock has a potential downside of -13.12% over the period. The median price target is -13.12% away from the current levels at $12.5.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on August 09, 2024 when Piper Sandler upgraded the stock to “Overweight” and issued a price target of between $9 and $13. Piper Sandler downgraded its price target at $4.30-$2.20.
Heritage Insurance Holdings Inc. (HRTG) stock is up 17.44% over the week and 85.56% over the past month. Its price is 116.87% year-to-date and 165.79% over the past year.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 6/30/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of -0.28 below consensus estimates by -0.07. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0.15 and 1.8 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $212.93M, which analysts say will come at $817.71M for the current fiscal year and next year at $886.42M. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $209.91M.
Its 12-month price target is $12.5. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to shrink -13.12 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $12, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $13.
Outstanding shares total 30.22M with insiders holding 26.84% of the shares and institutional holders owning 49.37% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 14.32% and return on equity of 27.22%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 7.23 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 6.63. The beta has a value of 0.93. Price to book ratio is 1.70 and price to sales ratio is 0.56.
