A Few Bright Spots In Bank Of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC)

Bank Of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC) currently has a daily average trading volume of 38.85M but it saw 35011559 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 304.49B USD, the company’s current market price of $39.24 came rising about 1.26 while comparing to the previous closing price of $38.75. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $44.44 and as low as $24.96. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $38.565 while lowest mark touched by it was $39.285.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Bank Of America Corp. (BAC) gives us an average price of $38.95, while its current price level is -11.70% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 57.21% 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 $40.14 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $36.07. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.53% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 2.18%. 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 48.51 which implies that the stock is in neutral 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 Piper Sandler which upgraded the stock as “Neutral” in its note to investors issued on July 09, 2024, recommending a price target of between $37 and $42 for it. Seaport Research Partners upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Neutral” on July 02, 2024 while assigning a price target of $48. Keefe Bruyette also issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $37 and $46.

Over the week, BAC’s stock price is moving 0.54% up while it is -6.99% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 16.54% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 37.97%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of 0.9 beat the consensus estimate of 0.82 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2024-Oct-15, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.72 while estimate for next year EPS is 2.94. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $22.76B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $91.93B and seeing the company making $96.16B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $23.01B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Bank Of America Corp.’s total number of outstanding shares is 7.90B with 12.05% of that held by the insiders while 60.77% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 3.91% and return on equity (ROE) at 8.49%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 13.80 while having a 10.64 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.34. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.14 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.61. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.77% on average.