BankUnited (BKU) Stock Forecast, Price & News

6 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BankUnited in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities 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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6 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for BankUnited's stock. Their BKU share price forecasts range from $22.00 to $40.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $30.88 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 31.7% from the stock's current price.
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BankUnited's stock was trading at $33.97 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, BKU shares have decreased by 31.0% and is now trading at $23.45.
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BankUnited saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 6,500,000 shares, an increase of 22.2% from the April 30th total of 5,320,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,380,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.7 days. Currently, 8.8% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 20th 2023.
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BankUnited, Inc. (NYSE:BKU) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, April, 25th. The financial services provider reported $0.70 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.93 by $0.23. The financial services provider had revenue of $456.95 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $264.73 million. BankUnited had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.93% and a net margin of 17.87%. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.79 EPS.

BankUnited declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 23rd. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, April 12th will be given a dividend of $0.27 per share on Friday, April 28th. This represents a $1.08 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.61%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, April 11th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.25.
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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 Regional Banking ETF (KRE), SPDR S&P Bank ETF (KBE), Invesco S&P SmallCap Financials ETF (PSCF), ETC 6 Meridian Small Cap Equity ETF (SIXS), Direxion Daily Regional Banks Bull 3x Shares (DPST), Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF (VIOV) and iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF (IJS).

BankUnited (NYSE:BKU) pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 5.20%. BKU has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. 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 31.21%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BKU will have a dividend payout ratio of 34.95% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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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 trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BKU."

BankUnited's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (15.00%), State Street Corp (6.46%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (6.39%), American Century Companies Inc. (3.65%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (3.44%) and LSV Asset Management (2.98%). Insiders that own company stock include A Gail Prudenti, Douglas J Pauls, Douglas J Pauls, Jay D Richards, John N Digiacomo, Kevin A Malcolm, Leslie Lunak, Rajinder P Singh and Sanjiv Sobti.
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Shares of BKU 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 BKU stock can currently be purchased for approximately $23.45.

BankUnited (NYSE:BKU) has a market capitalization of $1.74 billion and generates $1.31 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $284.97 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.46 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 1,636 workers across the globe.

BankUnited's mailing address is 14817 OAK LANE, MIAMI LAKES FL, 33016. The official website for the company is www.bankunited.com. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at (877) 779-2265, via email at llunak@bankunited.com, or via fax at 305-569-2019.