Amerant Bancorp (AMTB) Stock Forecast, Price & News

3 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Amerant Bancorp in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" AMTB shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in AMTB, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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3 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Amerant Bancorp's stock. Their AMTB share price forecasts range from $24.00 to $33.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $28.75 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 55.8% from the stock's current price.
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Amerant Bancorp's stock was trading at $26.84 at the start of the year. Since then, AMTB stock has decreased by 31.3% and is now trading at $18.45.
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Amerant Bancorp saw a increase in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 524,000 shares, an increase of 13.6% from the April 30th total of 461,100 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 83,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 6.3 days. Approximately 2.1% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July 19th 2023.
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Amerant Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ:AMTB) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April, 20th. The company reported $0.59 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.73 by $0.14. The business had revenue of $101.68 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $97.91 million. Amerant Bancorp had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.82% and a net margin of 14.33%.

Amerant Bancorp announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 19th. Stockholders of record on Monday, May 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.09 per share on Wednesday, May 31st. This represents a $0.36 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.95%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 12th.
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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 initial public offering (IPO) on the week of December 17th 2018. The company issued 6,300,000 shares at a price of $13.00 per share. Raymond James, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (A Stifel Company) and Stephens acted as the underwriters for the IPO and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and FIG Partners were co-managers.

Amerant Bancorp trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "AMTB."

Amerant Bancorp's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Wellington Management Group LLP (7.12%), BlackRock Inc. (5.81%), State Street Corp (1.94%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.69%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.56%) and American Century Companies Inc. (0.71%). 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 and Silvio Marshall Martin.
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Shares of AMTB stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of AMTB stock can currently be purchased for approximately $18.45.

Amerant Bancorp (NASDAQ:AMTB) has a market capitalization of $623.79 million and generates $406.05 million in revenue each year. The company earns $63.31 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.00 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 677 workers across the globe.

Amerant Bancorp's mailing address is 220 ALHAMBRA CIRCLE, CORAL GABLES FL, 33134. The official website for the company is www.amerantbank.com. The company can be reached via phone at (305) 460-8728 or via email at investorrelations@amerantbank.com.