Essent Group Ltd (NYSE:ESNT)’s traded shares stood at 0.7 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.81. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $57.60, to imply a decrease of -0.36% or -$0.21 in intraday trading. The ESNT share’s 52-week high remains $65.33, putting it -13.42% down since that peak but still an impressive 10.4% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $51.61.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Essent Group Ltd (ESNT), translating to a mean rating of 1.67. Of 5 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give ESNT a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 2 advise Hold as 3 recommend it as a Buy.
Essent Group Ltd (NYSE:ESNT) trade information
After registering a -0.36% downside in the last session, Essent Group Ltd (ESNT) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -3.73%, and 2.62% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 5.80%.
The extremes give us $44 and $130 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, ESNT has been trading -125.69% off suggested target high and 23.61% from its likely low.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 3.89% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a 0.41% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 3.45% annually.
ESNT Dividends
Essent Group Ltd has its next earnings report out in June. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Essent Group Ltd has a forward dividend ratio of 1.15, with the share yield ticking at 2.00% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 11.89 million shares, or about 11.2519% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $668.01 million.
We also have SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC and iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Essent Group Ltd (ESNT) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC holds roughly 8.39 shares. This is just over 8.28% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $483.52 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 3.43, or 3.38% of the shares, all valued at about 197.57 million.
