Prosperity Bancshares Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:PB)

12 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Prosperity Bancshares in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings, 7 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" PB shares.
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12 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Prosperity Bancshares' shares. Their PB share price targets range from $55.00 to $79.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $65.81 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 5.6% from the stock's current price.
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Prosperity Bancshares' stock was trading at $72.68 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, PB stock has decreased by 14.2% and is now trading at $62.33.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 24th 2024.
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Prosperity Bancshares, Inc. (NYSE:PB) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 25th. The bank reported $1.20 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.16 by $0.04. The bank earned $419.10 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $278.16 million. Prosperity Bancshares had a net margin of 30.16% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 7.09%. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.49 earnings per share.

Prosperity Bancshares announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 18th. Investors of record on Friday, December 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.56 per share on Tuesday, January 2nd. This represents a $2.24 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.59%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 14th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.55.
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Prosperity Bancshares (NYSE:PB) pays an annual dividend of $2.24 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.49%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 44.62%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, PB will have a dividend payout ratio of 43.84% 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 Prosperity Bancshares (NYSE:PB) stock in their portfolio include ProShares S&P MidCap 400 Dividend Aristocrats ETF (REGL), SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF (KRE), Invesco KBW Regional Banking ETF (KBWR), iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF (IAT), SPDR S&P Bank ETF (KBE), First Trust Financial AlphaDEX Fund (FXO), Invesco S&P MidCap Low Volatility ETF (XMLV) and First Trust Nasdaq Bank ETF (FTXO).

72 employees have rated Prosperity Bancshares Chief Executive Officer David Zalman on Glassdoor.com. David Zalman has an approval rating of 52% among the company's employees. This puts David Zalman in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Prosperity Bancshares' stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Victory Capital Management Inc. (6.18%), Brown Advisory Inc. (2.69%), Morgan Stanley (2.61%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (2.49%), Wellington Management Group LLP (2.36%) and American Century Companies Inc. (1.15%). Insiders that own company stock include George A Fisk, H E Timanus Jr, L Jack Lord, Robert H Steelhammer and Robert J Dowdell.
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