BlackRock Fund Advisors recently announced the acquisition of new stake in First Horizon Corporation (NYSE:FHN). The institutional investor has increased its shareholding in the Financial company by 1.90% to 65.21 million shares with purchase of 1.21 million shares. This fresh investment now brings its stake to 11.67% valued currently at $923.31 million. In addition, The Vanguard Group, Inc. raised its holdings by 2.3 million to 55.98 million shares. And SSgA Funds Management, Inc. has lifted its position by 8.41% or 2.25 million shares – to 29.02 million shares.
Currently, there are 559.00M common shares owned by the public and among those 550.12M shares have been available to trade.
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Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 56 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 36 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 927,244 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 20 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 364,938 shares.
The top 3 mutual fund holders in First Horizon Corporation are Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF, iShares Core S&P Mid Cap ETF, and Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund. Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF owns 17.53 million shares of the company’s stock, all valued at over $248.21 million. The company bought an additional 14270.0 shares recently to bring their total holdings to about 3.14% of the shares outstanding. iShares Core S&P Mid Cap ETF bought 15345.0 shares to see its total holdings expand to 16.97 million shares valued at over $240.26 million and representing 3.04% of the shares outstanding. Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund sold -0.24 million shares to bring its total holdings to over 14.23 million shares at a value of $201.5 million. Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund now owns shares totaling to 2.55% of the shares outstanding.
However, the script later moved the day high at 14.88, up 1.50%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 4.06% and 39.33% over the past three months. FHN shares are trading 5.08% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -39.56% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $8.99 and touched a high of $24.90 over the same period. FHN has an average intraday trading volume of 8.93 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 4.86%, 9.70%, and 18.15% respectively.
Institutional ownership of First Horizon Corporation (NYSE: FHN) shares accounts for 77.67% of the company’s 559.00M shares outstanding. Mutual fund holders own 37.66%, while other institutional holders and individual stakeholders account for 40.39% and 2.83% respectively.
It has a market capitalization of $8.31B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.97. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 9.73, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $1.53. The company has a PEG of 4.05 and the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.41. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.13% over the week and 2.71% over the month.
Analysts forecast that First Horizon Corporation (FHN) will achieve an EPS of $0.34 for the current quarter, $0.35 for the next quarter and $1.57 for 2025. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $0.32 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $0.36. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was $0.45 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -6.97%, and 7.99% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 2.40% over the next five years, compared to -1.32% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the FHN, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. UBS stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on January 24, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $15.50-$16.
