Wintrust Financial Corp (NASDAQ:WTFC) shares, rose in value on Friday, June 20, with the stock price up by 1.42% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $120.38.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $118.70, falling within a range of $119.0479 and $120.75. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.817 whereas the PE ratio was 11.90 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $142.04, and the low was $89.10. On the whole, WTFC has fluctuated by -1.34% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Wintrust Financial Corp currently standing at about $8.06 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Apr-21. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.90, with its dividend yield at 1.58%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that WTFC’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a Hold.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.99, with the price of WTFC currently trading nearly 0.39% and 4.52% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 54.06, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.03% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.38%. Furthermore, Wintrust Financial Corp (WTFC)’s beta value is 0.82, and its average true range (ATR) is 2.68.
A comparison of Wintrust Financial Corp (WTFC) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. WTFC showed an intraday change of 1.42% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 28.86%%.
Data on historical trading for Wintrust Financial Corp (NASDAQ:WTFC) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.34 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 447.05K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 66.92 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 2.03% of Wintrust Financial Corp’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 96.64% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 1.81 million shares as on 2025-05-30, resulting in a short ratio of 5.78. According to the data, the short interest in Wintrust Financial Corp (WTFC) stood at 301.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-05-30; the number of short shares registered in 2025-04-30 reached 2.08 million. The stock has fallen by -3.47% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the WTFC stock heading into the next quarter.
