Amerant Bancorp (AMTB) Stock Price, News & Analysis

4 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Amerant Bancorp in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" AMTB shares.
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4 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Amerant Bancorp's stock. Their AMTB share price targets range from $22.00 to $25.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $23.25 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.6%.
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Amerant Bancorp's stock was trading at $26.84 at the beginning of the year. Since then, AMTB shares have decreased by 12.9% and is now trading at $23.38.
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Amerant Bancorp saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 434,300 shares, an increase of 16.3% from the October 31st total of 373,300 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 65,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 6.7 days. Currently, 1.6% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 18th 2024.
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Amerant Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ:AMTB) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 19th. The company reported $0.64 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.61 by $0.03. The firm had revenue of $100.50 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $97.36 million. Amerant Bancorp had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.74% and a net margin of 11.23%.

Amerant Bancorp announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 19th. Investors of record on Tuesday, November 14th will be paid a dividend of $0.09 per share on Thursday, November 30th. This represents a $0.36 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.54%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, November 13th.
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Amerant Bancorp (NASDAQ:AMTB) pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.66%. The dividend payout ratio is 17.73%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, AMTB will have a dividend payout ratio of 17.06% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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15 employees have rated Amerant Bancorp Chief Executive Officer Jerry Plush on Glassdoor.com. Jerry Plush has an approval rating of 70% among the company's employees. 65.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Amerant Bancorp to a friend.

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(AMTB) raised $82 million in an IPO on the week of December 17th 2018. The company issued 6,300,000 shares at $13.00 per share. Raymond James, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (A Stifel Company) and Stephens served as the underwriters for the IPO and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and FIG Partners were co-managers.

Amerant Bancorp's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Wellington Management Group LLP (8.48%), American Century Companies Inc. (0.88%), Northern Trust Corp (0.72%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.61%), JCSD Capital LLC (0.26%) and AQR Capital Management LLC (0.25%). Insiders that own company stock include A Gustavo J Vollmer, Frederick C Copeland Jr, Gerald P Plush, Howard A Levine, John Quelch, Juan Esterripa, M Gustavo Marturet, Miguel Palacios, Millar Wilson, Samantha Holroyd, Sharymar Calderon and Silvio Marshall Martin.
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