First Horizon Corporation (NYSE:FHN) does about 5.85M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 6919296 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 9.35B USD. Its current market price is $17.45, marking an increase of 0.06% compared to the previous close of $17.44. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $17.68 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $10.16. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $21 and a low of $16.
First Horizon Corporation (FHN) has a 20-day trading average at $15.90 and the current price is -1.33% off the 52-week high compared with 71.75% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $15.85 and its 200-day simple moving average is $15.21. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.76%, which decreases to 2.46% 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 71.95 to suggest the stock is overbought.
12 analysts observing the First Horizon Corporation (FHN) stock have set the 12-month price targets for the company’s shares at between $16 and $21. The consensus objective for the share price is $19.10, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 8.64% over the period. The median price target is 12.75% away from the current levels at $20.
FactSet Research has provided data showing that 12 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 11 analysts have rated it as a buy and 1 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Moderate Buy the stock.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on September 24, 2024 when Wedbush downgraded the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of between $20 and $17. Raymond James also downgraded the stock to “Outperform” from Strong Buy on July 18, 2024 at a price target of $18. Keefe Bruyette downgraded its price target at $18.
The current price level is 9.75%, 10.10%, and 14.70% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the FHN price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. First Horizon Corporation (FHN) stock is up 6.53% over the week and 7.98% over the past month. Its price is 23.23% year-to-date and 57.63% over the past year.
Its 12-month price target is $20. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 8.64 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 $16, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $21.
Outstanding shares total 558.84M with insiders holding 0.90% of the shares and institutional holders owning 84.51% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 7.40% and return on equity of 9.05%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 12.68 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 11.25. The beta has a value of 0.90. Price to book ratio is 1.08 and price to sales ratio is 1.83.
