BankUnited Inc (NYSE:BKU) shares, rose in value on Friday, July 11, with the stock price down by -1.40% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $37.27.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $37.8, falling within a range of $36.93 and $37.48. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.305 whereas the PE ratio was 11.60 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $44.45, and the low was $28.21. On the whole, BKU has fluctuated by 5.16% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of BankUnited Inc currently standing at about $2.80 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Apr-28. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.20, with its dividend yield at 3.22%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that BKU’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of Hold while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.51, with the price of BKU currently trading nearly 4.37% and 6.50% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 61.61, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.04% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.25%. Furthermore, BankUnited Inc (BKU)’s beta value is 1.33.
A comparison of BankUnited Inc (BKU) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. BKU showed an intraday change of -1.40% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -2.36%%.
Data on historical trading for BankUnited Inc (NYSE:BKU) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.75 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 836.88K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 75.24 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.98% of BankUnited Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 101.26% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 3.1 million shares as on 2025-06-13, resulting in a short ratio of 4.51. According to the data, the short interest in BankUnited Inc (BKU) stood at 569.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-06-13; the number of short shares registered in 2025-05-15 reached 2.87 million. The stock has risen by 25.91% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the BKU stock heading into the next quarter.
