Northwest Bancshares Inc (NWBI) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $13.49, with 0.43 million shares of worth about $5.86 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 2.35% during that period and on July 03, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 1.12%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 127.74M shares, out of which, 120.72M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 5.06% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 10.12%. Year-to-date (YTD), NWBI shares are showing a performance of 17.51% which increased to 2.27% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $10.75 but also hit the highest price of $15.42 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Northwest Bancshares Inc shares is 797.35K. The stock is currently trading 7.29% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 8.42% for SMA50 and it goes to 4.30% higher than SMA200.
Northwest Bancshares Inc (NASDAQ: NWBI) currently have 127.74M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 70.34% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $1.72B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.69. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 15.07, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.90 in the same period. It has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.27. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for NWBI, volatility over the week remained 2.17% while standing at 2.06% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Northwest Bancshares Inc (NWBI) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.28 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.3 and it is 1.34 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.26 which is 0.29 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 0.27 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 18.65% while it is estimated to increase by 7.78% in next year.
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 Janney on September 29, 2022 offering a Neutral rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $15 to it. Coverage by Piper Sandler stated Northwest Bancshares Inc (NWBI) stock as an Underweight in their note to investors on May 06, 2022, suggesting a price target of $12 for the stock. On July 27, 2021, Keefe Bruyette Resumed their recommendations, while on July 27, 2021, B. Riley Securities Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $14. Stock get a Neutral rating from B. Riley Securities on July 27, 2021.
