Prosperity Bancshares Inc (NYSE: PB): Reassessing Prospects

Prosperity Bancshares Inc (PB) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $74.69, with 0.45 million shares of worth about $33.88 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 21.49% during that period and on January 08, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 1.25%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 95.26M shares, out of which, 91.22M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -0.88% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -8.84%. Year-to-date (YTD), PB shares are showing a performance of -0.88% which increased to 12.45% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $57.16 but also hit the highest price of $86.75 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Prosperity Bancshares Inc shares is 515.79K. The stock is currently trading -2.62% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -5.37% for SMA50 and it goes to 7.28% higher than SMA200.

Prosperity Bancshares Inc (NYSE: PB) currently have 95.26M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 82.65% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $7.12B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.95. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 15.90, while it has posted earnings per share of $4.70 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.43 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.57. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for PB, volatility over the week remained 2.56% while standing at 2.29% over the month.

Analysts are in expectations that Prosperity Bancshares Inc (PB) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 1.33 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 1.34 and it is 5.8 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 1.29 which is 1.37 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 1.02 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 11.19% while it is estimated to increase by 15.42% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 11.15% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -0.42% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by BofA Securities on January 07, 2025 offering a Neutral rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $80 to it. On October 15, 2024, DA Davidson Downgrade their recommendations, while on September 24, 2024, Wedbush Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $90. Stock get a Hold rating from Truist on September 20, 2024.

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