Enterprise Financial Services Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:EFSC)

2 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Enterprise Financial Services in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" EFSC shares.
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2 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Enterprise Financial Services' stock. Their EFSC share price targets range from $42.00 to $50.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $46.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 9.8% from the stock's current price.
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Enterprise Financial Services' stock was trading at $48.96 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, EFSC shares have decreased by 14.4% and is now trading at $41.90.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, January 22nd 2024.
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Enterprise Financial Services Corp (NASDAQ:EFSC) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, October, 24th. The bank reported $1.17 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.24 by $0.07. The bank earned $212.99 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $153.59 million. Enterprise Financial Services had a net margin of 27.05% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 13.84%. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.31 earnings per share.

Enterprise Financial Services declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, October 23rd. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 15th will be given a dividend of $0.25 per share on Friday, December 29th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.39%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 14th.
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Enterprise Financial Services (NASDAQ:EFSC) pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.40%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 6 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 18.18%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EFSC will have a dividend payout ratio of 21.79% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Enterprise Financial Services (NASDAQ:EFSC) stock in their portfolio include Thrivent Small-Mid Cap ESG ETF (TSME) and Opus Small Cap Value Plus ETF (OSCV).First Trust NASDAQ ABA Community Bank Index Fund (QABA).

21 employees have rated Enterprise Financial Services Chief Executive Officer James Lally on Glassdoor.com. James Lally has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts James Lally in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 83.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Enterprise Financial Services to a friend.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Enterprise Financial Services investors own include Stifel Financial (SF), People's United Financial (PBCT), Eastman Chemical (EMN), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Main Street Capital (MAIN), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Synovus Financial (SNV), Southern (SO), AT&T (T) and WaFd (WAFD).

Enterprise Financial Services' stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Wellington Management Group LLP (5.74%), Earnest Partners LLC (5.40%), William Blair Investment Management LLC (1.91%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1.30%), Northern Trust Corp (1.23%) and Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (1.10%). Insiders that own company stock include James F Deutsch, John S Eulich, Lyne Andrich, Peter Hui, Richard Sanborn, Robert E Guest Jr, S Turner Keene, Scott Richard Goodman, Stephen P Marsh, Tony Scavuzzo and Troy Dumlao.
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