BankUnited Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:BKU)

7 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BankUnited in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" BKU shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in BKU, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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7 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for BankUnited's stock. Their BKU share price targets range from $25.00 to $33.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $27.14 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 8.7%.
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BankUnited's stock was trading at $33.97 at the beginning of the year. Since then, BKU stock has decreased by 12.5% and is now trading at $29.74.
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BankUnited saw a increase in short interest in October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 5,520,000 shares, an increase of 13.1% from the October 15th total of 4,880,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 757,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 7.3 days. Currently, 7.5% 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, January 18th 2024.
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BankUnited, Inc. (NYSE:BKU) released its earnings results on Thursday, October, 19th. The financial services provider reported $0.63 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.71 by $0.08. The financial services provider had revenue of $498.26 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $239.38 million. BankUnited had a net margin of 11.86% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.91%. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $1.12 earnings per share.

BankUnited announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, September 27th. Stockholders of record on Friday, October 13th will be given a dividend of $0.27 per share on Tuesday, October 31st. This represents a $1.08 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.63%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, October 12th.
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BankUnited (NYSE:BKU) pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.66%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 2 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 36.86%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BKU will have a dividend payout ratio of 36.49% 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 BankUnited (NYSE:BKU) stock in their portfolio include Invesco KBW Regional Banking ETF (KBWR), SPDR S&P Bank ETF (KBE), SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF (KRE), Direxion Daily Regional Banks Bull 3x Shares (DPST), Invesco S&P SmallCap Financials ETF (PSCF), WBI Power Factor High Dividend ETF (WBIY), First Trust Small Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund (FYT) and First Trust Active Factor Small Cap ETF (AFSM).

18 employees have rated BankUnited Chief Executive Officer Raj Singh on Glassdoor.com. Raj Singh has an approval rating of 62% among the company's employees. This puts Raj Singh in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other BankUnited investors own include Citigroup (C), Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), Boeing (BA), General Motors (GM), Intel (INTC), KeyCorp (KEY), AT&T (T), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Bank of America (BAC).

BankUnited's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include JPMorgan Chase & Co. (3.45%), American Century Companies Inc. (3.41%), LSV Asset Management (3.15%), FMR LLC (2.07%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.81%) and Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (1.66%). Insiders that own company stock include A Gail Prudenti, Douglas J Pauls, Jay D Richards, John N Digiacomo, Kevin A Malcolm and Sanjiv Sobti.
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