Bank Of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) has a beta value of 1.28 and has seen 5.2 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $314.83B, closed the recent trade at $41.40 per share which meant it lost -$0.09 on the day or -0.22% during that session. The BAC stock price is -16.14% off its 52-week high price of $48.08 and 17.51% above the 52-week low of $34.15. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 35.64 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 38.55 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Bank Of America Corp (BAC) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.54. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 6 out of 20 have rated it as a Hold, with 14 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 0.82.
Bank Of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) trade information
Sporting -0.22% in the red today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the BAC stock price touched $41.40 or saw a rise of 3.92%. Year-to-date, Bank Of America Corp shares have moved -5.80%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -3.32%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Bank Of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) have changed -2.98%. Short interest in the company has seen 87.76 million shares shorted with days to cover at 1.92.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $50, which means that the shares’ value could jump 17.2% from the levels at last check today. The projected low price target is $45.0 while the price target rests at a high of $54.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -30.43% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -8.7% from the levels at last check today.
Bank Of America Corp (BAC) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 4.33% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 6.53%.
11 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 26.96B for the current quarter. 11 have an estimated revenue figure of 27B for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 25.82B and 25.38B respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 4.44% for the current quarter and 6.53% for the next.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was 3.14% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 14.80% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 14.60%.
BAC Dividends
Bank Of America Corp is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Jan-15 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 1.02 at a share yield of 2.46%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 2.44%.
Bank Of America Corp (NYSE:BAC)’s Major holders
Insiders own 9.05% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 66.21% with a share float percentage of 72.80%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Bank Of America Corp having a total of 3950.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC with over 1.03 billion shares worth more than $41.08 billion. As of 2024-06-30, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC held 13.0776% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, with the holding of over 641.63 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $25.52 billion and represent 8.0524% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund. As of Dec 31, 2024, the former fund manager holds about 2.84% shares in the company for having 216.28 shares of worth $8.99 billion while later fund manager owns 180.7 shares of worth $7.51 billion as of Dec 31, 2024, which makes it owner of about 2.38% of company’s outstanding stock.