UMB Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:UMBF) price on Friday, March 17, fall -10.74% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $58.27.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $65.28, moving within a range at $57.38 and $62.58. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.84 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 6.58. Turning to its 52-week performance, $102.95 and $51.28 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, UMBF moved -36.27% over the past month.
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UMB Financial Corporation’s market cap currently stands at around $2.92 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for Apr 24, 2023 – Apr 28, 2023. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.52, with its dividend yield at 2.61%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report. Analysts project the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be $2, which has seen fiscal year 2023 EPS growth forecast to increase to $8.26 and about $8.57 for fiscal year 2024. Per the data, EPS growth is expected to be -6.80% for 2023 and 3.80% for the next financial year.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of $376.37 million for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of $373.4 million and $378 million respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 12.70% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue for 2023 to grow to $1.54 billion, representing a 5.20% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Revisions could be used as tool to get short term price movement insight, and for the company that in the past seven days was no upward and no downward review(s). Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that UMBF is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
UMBF’s current price about -30.27% and -32.26% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 11.32, while 7-day volatility ratio is 17.16% and 5.90% in the 30-day chart. Further, UMB Financial Corporation (UMBF) has a beta value of 0.84, and an average true range (ATR) of 4.84.
In the market, a comparison of UMB Financial Corporation (UMBF) and its peers suggest the former has performed considerably weaker. Data shows UMBF’s intraday price has changed -10.74% in last session and -42.92% over the past year. Comparatively, Landmark Bancorp Inc. (LARK) has moved -4.39% on the day and only -18.99% in the past 12 months. Looking at another peer, we see that West Bancorporation Inc. (WTBA) price has dipped -3.27% on the day. However, the stock is -34.78% off its price a year ago. Moreover, Great Southern Bancorp Inc. (GSBC) is also down -6.72% in trading on the day while keeping a a downtrend of -15.79% over the past year. If we look at the PE ratio, we find that UMB Financial Corporation’s ratio stands at 6.58 compared to Landmark Bancorp Inc.’s 11.10 and West Bancorporation Inc.’s 6.75. Elsewhere, the overall performance for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial shows that the indexes are down -1.10% and -1.19% respectively in the last trading.
If we refocus on UMB Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:UMBF), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.69 million over the past 10 days and 282.76K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 48.31 million shares.
The 0.70% of UMB Financial Corporation’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 91.30% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 0.56 million on Jan 12, 2023, giving us a short ratio of 2.81. The data shows that as of Jan 12, 2023 short interest in UMB Financial Corporation (UMBF) stood at 1.17% of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 0.46 million registered in Dec 14, 2022. Current price change has pushed the stock -30.23% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the UMBF stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
