Is AMBAC Financial Group Inc (NYSE:AMBC), -154.85% Below Its High, Poised For A Strong Recovery?

In recent trading session, AMBAC Financial Group Inc (NYSE:AMBC) saw 0.58 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 0.84. Company’s recent per share price level of $7.22 trading at $0.69 or 10.60% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $369.00M. That most recent trading price of AMBC’s stock is at a discount of -154.85% from its 52-week high price of $18.40 and is indicating a premium of 17.04% from its 52-week low price of $5.99. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 1.17 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.31 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For AMBAC Financial Group Inc (AMBC), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.00. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 2 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 1 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.

AMBAC Financial Group Inc (NYSE:AMBC) trade information

Upright in the green today for gaining 10.60%, in the last five days AMBC remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Monday, 05/12/25 when the stock touched $7.22 price level, adding 15.06% to its value on the day. AMBAC Financial Group Inc’s shares saw a change of -42.91% in year-to-date performance and have moved -10.06% in past 5-day. AMBAC Financial Group Inc (NYSE:AMBC) showed a performance of 3.18% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 2.78 million shares which calculate 2.48 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 18 to the stock, which implies a rise of 59.89% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 18 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 18. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -149.31% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -149.31% for stock’s current value.

AMBAC Financial Group Inc (NYSE:AMBC)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 6.41% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 80.39 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 85.89%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 80.39% institutions for AMBAC Financial Group Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at AMBC for having 7.46 million shares of worth $95.69 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 16.1521 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 4.89 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 10.5759 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $62.65 million.

On the other hand, Fidelity Capital Trust-Fidelity Value Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 1.42 shares of worth $10.43 million or 3.07% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 1.39 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $10.18 million in the company or a holder of 2.99% of company’s stock.