Home Bancshares Inc (NYSE:HOMB) Shares Surges 2.55% In A Week – But Can It Keep Rising?

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In last trading session, Home Bancshares Inc (NYSE:HOMB) saw 0.86 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.80. Company’s recent per share price level of $29.32 trading at -$0.06 or -0.20% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $5.79B. That closing price of HOMB’s stock is at a discount of -12.21% from its 52-week high price of $32.90 and is indicating a premium of 23.53% from its 52-week low price of $22.42. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.66 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.06 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Home Bancshares Inc (HOMB), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.00. 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.

Home Bancshares Inc (NYSE:HOMB) trade information

Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.20%, in the last five days HOMB remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Monday, 05/12/25 when the stock touched $29.32 price level, adding 2.4% to its value on the day. Home Bancshares Inc’s shares saw a change of 3.60% in year-to-date performance and have moved 2.55% in past 5-day. Home Bancshares Inc (NYSE:HOMB) showed a performance of 12.86% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 6.24 million shares which calculate 5.27 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 30 to the stock, which implies a rise of 2.27% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 30 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 30. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -2.32% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -2.32% for stock’s current value.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 3.10% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 13.40% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 6.61%.

HOMB Dividends

Home Bancshares Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-15 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 2.68%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.79 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 2.77%.

Home Bancshares Inc (NYSE:HOMB)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 6.12% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 73.07 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 77.84%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 73.07% institutions for Home Bancshares Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at HOMB for having 23.47 million shares of worth $562.3 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 11.7155 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 20.12 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 10.0441 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $482.08 million.

On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 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 6.04 shares of worth $177.07 million or 3.06% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 5.66 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $165.99 million in the company or a holder of 2.87% of company’s stock.