As on Thursday, Webster Financial Corp. (NYSE: WBS) got off with the flyer as it spiked 0.78% to $51.87, before settling in for the price of $51.47 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, WBS posted a 52-week range of $36.36-$54.38.
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In the past 5-years timespan, the Financial sector firm’s annual sales growth was 31.38%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 5.17%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -12.59%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $172.02 million, simultaneously with a float of $169.82 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $8.89 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $46.76, while the 200-day Moving Average is $46.44.
Webster Financial Corp. (WBS) Ownership Facts and Figures
Another important factor to analyze is how key investors are playing towards the stock of the Banks – Regional industry. Webster Financial Corp.’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.94%, in contrast to 86.56% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Oct 22 ’24, this organization’s Director sold 4,500 shares at the rate of 51.14, making the entire transaction reach 230,139 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 32,780. Preceding that transaction, on Oct 21 ’24, Company’s Chief Risk Officer sold 3,463 for 52.10, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 180,440. This particular insider is now the holder of 19,529 in total.
Webster Financial Corp. (WBS) Earnings and Revenue Records
Webster Financial Corp.’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -12.59% and is forecasted to reach 5.71 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 8.70% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 5.17% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Webster Financial Corp. (NYSE: WBS) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Webster Financial Corp. (WBS). The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 1.60. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $11.75, and its Beta score is 1.27. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 2.15. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 9.12.
In the same vein, WBS’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 4.42, a figure that is expected to reach 1.34 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 5.71 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Webster Financial Corp. (WBS)
Through scrutinizing the latest numbers posted by the [Webster Financial Corp., WBS], it can be observed that its last 5-days Average volume of 1.47 million was better the volume of 1.25 million, it posted the year before. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 67.66% While, its Average True Range was 1.66.
Raw Stochastic average of Webster Financial Corp. (WBS) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 83.32%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 74.18% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 51.39% that was higher than 38.90% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
