Heritage Financial Stock Forecast, Price & News

1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Heritage Financial in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" Heritage Financial stock. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in HFWA, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Heritage Financial is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 29th 2021.
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Heritage Financial Co. (NASDAQ:HFWA) released its earnings results on Thursday, January, 28th. The financial services provider reported $0.66 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.46 by $0.20. Heritage Financial had a net margin of 16.02% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 4.97%.
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Heritage Financial's stock was trading at $20.21 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, HFWA stock has increased by 41.2% and is now trading at $28.53.
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Heritage Financial announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, January 29th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, February 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.20 per share on Wednesday, February 24th. This represents a $0.80 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.80%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, February 9th.
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Heritage Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.92%. Heritage Financial does not yet have a strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Heritage Financial is 43.72%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Heritage Financial will have a dividend payout ratio of 66.12% next year. This indicates that Heritage Financial will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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1 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Heritage Financial's shares. Their forecasts range from $28.00 to $28.00. On average, they anticipate Heritage Financial's stock price to reach $28.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.9%.
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17 employees have rated Heritage Financial CEO Jeff Deuel on Glassdoor.com. Jeff Deuel has an approval rating of 94% among Heritage Financial's employees. This puts Jeff Deuel in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Some companies that are related to Heritage Financial include Truist Financial (TFC), The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), First Republic Bank (FRC), SVB Financial Group (SIVB), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), M&T Bank (MTB), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Signature Bank (SBNY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), First Horizon (FHN), Zions Bancorporation, National Association (ZION) and Commerce Bancshares (CBSH).
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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 Holdings Limited (CGH.L) (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 a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (14.68%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (9.96%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (4.66%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (3.49%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.29%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.73%). Company insiders that own Heritage Financial stock include Brian Charneski, Brian L Vance, Bryan Mcdonald, David A Spurling, Gragg E Miller, Jeffrey J Deuel, Jeffrey S Lyon and Lisa Banner.
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HFWA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including First Trust Advisors LP, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Victory Capital Management Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Northern Trust Corp, Principal Financial Group Inc., Royce & Associates LP, and Wells Fargo & Company MN.
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HFWA stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Alliancebernstein L.P., Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase & Co., BlackRock Inc., THB Asset Management, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Krane Funds Advisors LLC, and ExodusPoint Capital Management LP. Company insiders that have bought Heritage Financial stock in the last two years include Brian Charneski, Gragg E Miller, Jeffrey J Deuel, and Jeffrey S Lyon.
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Shares of HFWA 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 $28.53.

Heritage Financial has a market capitalization of $1.02 billion and generates $250.31 million in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $67.56 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.83 on an earnings per share basis.

Heritage Financial employs 848 workers across the globe.

The official website for Heritage Financial is www.hf-wa.com.

Heritage Financial is headquartered at 201 FIFTH AVENUE S.W., OLYMPIA WA, 98501.

Heritage Financial's mailing address is 201 FIFTH AVENUE S.W., OLYMPIA WA, 98501. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 360-943-1500 or via email at [email protected]