Heritage Financial - HFWA Stock Forecast, Price & News

1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Heritage Financial in the last year. There are currently 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" HFWA shares.
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1 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Heritage Financial's stock. Their HFWA share price forecasts range from $35.00 to $38.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $36.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 24.1% from the stock's current price.
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Heritage Financial's stock was trading at $30.64 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, HFWA shares have decreased by 4.0% and is now trading at $29.41.
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Heritage Financial saw a drop in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 870,100 shares, a drop of 17.9% from the December 31st total of 1,060,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 223,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.9 days. Approximately 2.5% 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, April 20th 2023.
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Heritage Financial Co. (NASDAQ:HFWA) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 20th. The financial services provider reported $0.58 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.53 by $0.05. The financial services provider earned $59.61 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $60.53 million. Heritage Financial had a net margin of 31.85% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.23%. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.46 earnings per share.

Heritage Financial declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 25th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, February 8th will be paid a dividend of $0.22 per share on Wednesday, February 22nd. This represents a $0.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.99%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, February 7th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.21.
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Heritage Financial (NASDAQ:HFWA) pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.86%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 36.36%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, HFWA will have a dividend payout ratio of 32.68% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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17 employees have rated Heritage Financial Chief Executive Officer Jeff Deuel on Glassdoor.com. Jeff Deuel has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Jeff Deuel in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Heritage Financial investors own include Intelsat (I), Bank of America (BAC), Fossil Group (FOSL), Associated British Foods (ABF), AMC Entertainment (AMC), Chaarat Gold (CGH), Ciena (CIEN), Apollo Global Management (APO), China Unicom (Hong Kong) (CHU) and First Data (FDC).

Heritage Financial trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "HFWA."

Heritage Financial's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Heartland Advisors Inc. (0.99%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.80%), Kiley Juergens Wealth Management LLC (0.57%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.48%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.33%) and Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.32%). Insiders that own company stock include Brian Charneski, Brian L Vance, Cindy M Huntley, Gragg E Miller, Jeffrey J Deuel, Jeffrey S Lyon, John A Clees and Tony Chalfant.
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Shares of HFWA 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 HFWA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $29.41.

Heritage Financial (NASDAQ:HFWA) has a market capitalization of $1.03 billion and generates $257.05 million in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $81.88 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.31 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 751 workers across the globe.

Heritage Financial's mailing address is 201 FIFTH AVENUE S.W., OLYMPIA WA, 98501. The official website for the company is www.hf-wa.com. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at (360) 943-1500, via email at hfwa@heritagebanknw.com, or via fax at 360-352-0864.