NYSE:GWB - Great Western Bancorp Stock Price, Forecast & News

Great Western Bancorp trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "GWB."

Great Western Bancorp announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, January 28th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, February 12th will be paid a dividend of $0.30 per share on Wednesday, February 26th. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.89%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, February 11th. View Great Western Bancorp's Dividend History.

Great Western Bancorp Inc (NYSE:GWB) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January, 28th. The bank reported $0.77 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting analysts' consensus estimates of $0.77. The bank earned $120.91 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $123.05 million. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.79 EPS. View Great Western Bancorp's Earnings History.

Great Western Bancorp is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 23rd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Great Western Bancorp.

5 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Great Western Bancorp's stock. Their forecasts range from $35.00 to $37.00. On average, they anticipate Great Western Bancorp's share price to reach $36.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 16.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Great Western Bancorp.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Great Western Bancorp in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Great Western Bancorp.

News headlines about GWB stock have been trending neutral this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Great Western Bancorp earned a news impact score of 0.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the bank a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Great Western Bancorp.

Great Western Bancorp saw a drop in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,120,000 shares, a drop of 5.9% from the January 15th total of 1,190,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 297,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.8 days. Currently, 2.0% of the company's shares are short sold. View Great Western Bancorp's Current Options Chain.

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Great Western Bancorp's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Mairs & Power INC (4.34%), State Street Corp (3.74%), FMR LLC (3.54%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (3.32%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (3.31%) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (3.32%). Company insiders that own Great Western Bancorp stock include Andrew James Pederson, Douglas Richard Bass, Karlyn M Knieriem, Kenneth James Karels, Peter Robert Chapman and Thomas Edward Henning. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Great Western Bancorp.

GWB stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Principal Financial Group Inc., State Street Corp, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Mountain Pacific Investment Advisers Inc. ID, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Westwood Holdings Group Inc., Snow Capital Management LP and Arizona State Retirement System. Company insiders that have sold Great Western Bancorp company stock in the last year include Andrew James Pederson, Kenneth James Karels and Peter Robert Chapman. View Insider Buying and Selling for Great Western Bancorp.

GWB stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of Montreal Can, FMR LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, LSV Asset Management and Public Sector Pension Investment Board. View Insider Buying and Selling for Great Western Bancorp.

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One share of GWB stock can currently be purchased for approximately $30.82.