U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) is -12.67% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $37.81 and a high of $53.98 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The USB stock was last observed hovering at around $42.22 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.45%.
Currently trading at $41.77, the stock is -2.36% and -8.21% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 9.51 million and changing -1.07% at the moment leaves the stock -9.20% off its SMA200. USB registered -6.55% loss for a year compared to 6-month gain of -8.16%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $45.505 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $46.00305.
The stock witnessed a -9.67% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -13.86%, and is -4.42% 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 2.27% over the week and 2.44% over the month.
U.S. Bancorp (USB) has around 70263 employees, a market worth around $65.08B and $42.29B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 11.03 and Fwd P/E is 8.66. Profit margin for the company is 13.97%. Distance from 52-week low is 10.47% and -22.62% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (5.40%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 14.36% this year.
U.S. Bancorp (USB) Top Institutional Holders
2263.0 institutions hold shares in U.S. Bancorp (USB), with institutional investors hold 82.41% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 1.56B, and float is at 1.55B with Short Float at 1.42%. Institutions hold 82.31% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 135.59 million shares valued at $5.38 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 8.697% of the USB Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 110.54 million shares valued at $4.39 billion to account for 7.086 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are STATE STREET CORP which holds 66.46 million shares representing 4.2632% and valued at over $2.67 billion, while MUFG BANK, LTD. holds 4.2252 of the shares totaling 65.91 million with a market value of $2.62 billion.
U.S. Bancorp (USB) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Roy Arijit, the company’s Sr. Exec. VP. SEC filings show that Roy Arijit sold 2,237 shares of the company’s common stock on Mar 07 ’25 at a price of $43.67 per share for a total of $97701.0. Following the sale, the insider now owns 39994.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Feb 13 ’25, DOLAN TERRANCE R (Officer) Proposed Sale 25,000 shares at an average price of $46.98 for $1.17 million. The insider now directly holds shares of U.S. Bancorp (USB).
