Home Bancshares Inc (NYSE: HOMB) is 5.44% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $22.38 and a high of $32.90 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The HOMB stock was last observed hovering at around $30.05 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.21%.
Currently trading at $29.84, the stock is -1.78% and 0.92% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.26 million and changing -0.70% at the moment leaves the stock 9.38% off its SMA200. HOMB registered 26.07% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 11.34%.
The stock witnessed a -0.83% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -3.24%, and is -1.84% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.01% over the week and 1.98% over the month.
Home Bancshares Inc (HOMB) has around 2819 employees, a market worth around $5.93B and $1.46B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 14.84 and Fwd P/E is 13.30. Profit margin for the company is 27.49%. Distance from 52-week low is 33.33% and -9.31% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (8.04%).
with sales reaching $255.2M over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 8.15% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 1.70% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 3.20% in year-over-year returns.
The shares outstanding are 198.88M, and float is at 184.06M with Short Float at 2.39%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 23.47 million shares valued at $562.3 million. The investor’s holdings represent 11.6636 of the HOMB Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 20.12 million shares valued at $482.08 million to account for 9.9996 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are STATE STREET CORP which holds 8.7 million shares representing 4.3234 and valued at over $208.43 million, while T. ROWE PRICE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, INC. holds 4.1352 of the shares totaling 8.28 million with a market value of $198.48 million.
Home Bancshares Inc (HOMB) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider purchase by ALLISON JOHN W, the company’s Chairman & CEO. SEC filings show that ALLISON JOHN W bought 10,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Jan 21 ’25 at a price of $30.76 per share for a total of $0.31 million. Following the purchase, the insider now owns 5.69 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Nov 25 ’24, LIEBLONG ALEX R (Director) disposed off 55,000 shares at an average price of $32.75 for $1.8 million. The insider now directly holds 0 shares of Home Bancshares Inc (HOMB).
