Heartland Financial USA, Inc. (NASDAQ:HTLF) concluded the trading at $43.94 on Friday, May 03, with a rise of 1.57% from its closing price on previous day.
Taking a look at stock we notice that its last check on previous day was $43.26. Company’s P/E ratio for the trailing 12 months is 26.62. Considering stock’s 52-week price range provides that HTLF hit a high price of $43.53 and saw its price falling to a low level of $26.10 during that period. Over a period of past 1-month, stock came adding 29.27% in its value.
With its current market valuation of $1.88 billion. HTLF Stock’s Forward Dividend of 1.20 and its yield of 2.73% are making investors’ thoughts stronger that it could climb further before the company announces its earnings for the current quarter. Analysts are in estimates of 1.12 per share for company’s earnings in the current quarter and are expecting its annual EPS growth moving up to 4.47 for current year with estimates of that growing to 4.67 in next year.
Analysts watching the company’s growth closely have provided estimates for its revenue growth with an average revenue estimate of 183.87M. They suggested that in the process company could generate revenue of as low as 182.53M which could climb up to 184.99M to hit a high. The average estimate is representing an increase of 0.90% in sales growth from that of posted by the company in the same quarter of last year. In keeping analyst consensus estimate with, company is forecasted to be making an annual revenue of 734.9M in current fiscal year, which will be 1.80% more from revenue generated by the company last year.
In contrast, when we review HTLF stock’s current outlook then short term indicators are assigning it an average of 100% Buy, while medium term indicators are categorizing the stock at an average of 50% Buy. Long term indicators are suggesting an average of 100% Buy for it.
Digging deeper we become aware of the PEG ratio of the HTLF stock which is currently positioned at 2.66. It further provides that stock’s current price level is 21.95% away from its 20-day simple moving average and is 26.85% off its SMA50. Its relative strength index (RSI) for 14-periods is oscillating at 82.29 while volatility remained at 3.74% over the past week which changes to 2.86% when measuring it over the past month. Beta is valued at 0.97, while measure of average true range or ATR is currently at 1.43.
Having a second look at Heartland Financial USA, Inc. (NASDAQ:HTLF) provides that stock’s average daily trading volume for 3 months was 352.88K. Number of outstanding shares of the stock stood at 42.69 million.
The percentage of outstanding shares held by the insiders is 7.48% while it is 75.44% for the institutional holders. Addition of 16.83% by stock’s current price to its year-to-date value in last trading session is likely to be increasing investors’ interest in the stock as it is hinting an extended uptrend.
