With over 74.22 million Bank Of America Corp. (BAC) shares trading Friday and a closing price of $32.80 on the day, the dollar volume was approximately $2.43 billion. The shares have shown a positive half year performance of 12.68% and its price on 01/12/24 lost nearly -1.06%. Currently, there are 7.91B common shares owned by the public and among those 7.90B shares have been available to trade.
Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 235 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 117 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 3,762,533 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 118 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 2,438,227 shares.
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Shares of Bank Of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) opened at $32.25, down -$0.9 from a prior closing price of $33.15. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -4.73% and 21.93% over the past three months. BAC shares are trading -2.58% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -4.60% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $24.96 and touched a high of $37.00 over the same period. BAC has an average intraday trading volume of 46.19 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -2.32%, 5.74%, and 12.11% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Bank Of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) shares accounts for 70.70% of the company’s 7.91B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $259.57B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.40. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 10.68, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $3.07. The company has a PEG of 0.44 and the debt-to-equity ratio at 2.12. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.03% over the week and 2.14% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Bank Of America Corp. (BAC) will achieve an EPS of $0.68 for the current quarter, $0.78 for the next quarter and $3.23 for 2024. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $0.47 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $0.76. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was $0.85 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 4.66%, and 7.89% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 24.37% over the next five years, compared to 3.38% over the past 5-year period.
If you are looking to buy this stock, then you may note that the average analyst recommendation by 29 brokerage firm advisors rate Bank Of America Corp. (BAC) as a “Moderate Buy” at a consensus score of 2.10. Specifically, 12 Wall Street analysts polled rate the stock as a buy, while 12 of the 29 advise that investors “hold,” and 1 rated it as a “Sell.”
