Wintrust Financial Corp (WTFC) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $128.26, with 0.48 million shares of worth about $61.19 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 28.06% during that period and on January 08, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.53%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 66.48M shares, out of which, 65.39M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 2.85% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -6.21%. Year-to-date (YTD), WTFC shares are showing a performance of 2.85% which increased to 37.18% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $89.68 but also hit the highest price of $142.04 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Wintrust Financial Corp shares is 413.80K. The stock is currently trading 0.64% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -0.44% for SMA50 and it goes to 17.70% higher than SMA200.
Wintrust Financial Corp (NASDAQ: WTFC) currently have 66.48M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 91.90% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $8.53B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.19. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 13.44, while it has posted earnings per share of $9.54 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.34 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for WTFC, volatility over the week remained 3.38% while standing at 2.61% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Wintrust Financial Corp (WTFC) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 2.49 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 2.44 and it is 10.26 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 2.27 which is 2.62 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 1.87 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 5.68% while it is estimated to increase by 1.12% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 10.00% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 10.34% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Coverage by Keefe Bruyette stated Wintrust Financial Corp (WTFC) stock as a Mkt perform in their note to investors on July 19, 2024, suggesting a price target of $115 for the stock. On June 21, 2024, Hovde Group Resumed their recommendations, while on March 08, 2024, Barclays Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $135. Stock get a Buy rating from Citigroup on December 01, 2023.
