Eastern Bankshares Inc. (NASDAQ:EBC) does about 1.26M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1482234 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 3.64B USD. Its current market price is $16.87, marking an increase of 0.72% compared to the previous close of $16.75. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $17.26 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $10.65.
Eastern Bankshares Inc. (EBC) has a 20-day trading average at $16.36 and the current price is -2.26% off the 52-week high compared with 58.40% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $16.07 and its 200-day simple moving average is $14.34. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.12%, which increases to 2.39% 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 61.77 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $19.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 11.21% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on August 06, 2024 when JP Morgan resumed the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of between $14 and $18.50. JP Morgan downgraded its price target at $19.50-$15.
The current price level is 3.14%, 4.96%, and 17.62% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the EBC price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Eastern Bankshares Inc. (EBC) stock is up 4.52% over the week and 3.69% over the past month. Its price is 18.80% year-to-date and 39.65% 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 0.32 above consensus estimates by 0.04. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0.33 and 1.1 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $183.86M, which analysts say will come at $628.16M for the current fiscal year and next year at $764.72M. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $182.28M.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 11.21 percent from here.
Outstanding shares total 215.65M with insiders holding 0.97% of the shares and institutional holders owning 63.25% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 14.42% and return on equity of 5.82%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 6.20 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 11.78. The beta has a value of 0.88. Price to book ratio is 1.00 and price to sales ratio is 3.99.
