After A -0.50% Drop In The Last Week, Does Cousins Properties Inc (NYSE: CUZ) Still Make Sense To Buy?

During the last session, Cousins Properties Inc (NYSE:CUZ)’s traded shares were 0.78 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.34. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $28.09, reflecting an intraday gain of 1.01% or $0.28. The 52-week high for the CUZ share is $32.55, that puts it down -15.88 from that peak though still a striking 21.64% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $22.01. The company’s market capitalization is $4.72B, and the average trade volume was 1.48 million shares over the past three months.

Cousins Properties Inc (CUZ) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.55. CUZ has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 3 analysts who have looked at this stock. 0 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 3 recommend a Buy rating for it.

Cousins Properties Inc (NYSE:CUZ) trade information

Cousins Properties Inc (CUZ) registered a 1.01% upside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 1.01% in intraday trading to $28.09, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -0.50%, and it has moved by 4.23% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 18.42%.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $33.5, which implies an increase of 16.15% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $31 and $36 respectively. As a result, CUZ is trading at a discount of -28.16% off the target high and -10.36% off the low.

An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -0.46%. While earnings are projected to return 45.30% in 2025, the next five years will return 32.31% per annum.

CUZ Dividends

Cousins Properties Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings in June. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Cousins Properties Inc is 1.28, with the dividend yield indicating at 4.56 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years.

The next largest institutional holding, with 21.18 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 13.9263% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $490.35 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Cousins Properties Inc (CUZ) shares are VANGUARD SPECIALIZED FUNDS-Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund and iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF . Data provided on Jan 31, 2025 indicates that VANGUARD SPECIALIZED FUNDS-Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund owns about 5.87 shares. This amounts to just over 3.50 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $164.91 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 5.48, or about 3.26% of the stock, which is worth about $153.85 million.