Prosperity Bancshares - PB Stock Forecast, Price & News

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Prosperity Bancshares in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" PB shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in PB, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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8 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Prosperity Bancshares' stock. Their PB share price forecasts range from $63.00 to $85.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $75.45 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 25.2% from the stock's current price.
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Prosperity Bancshares' stock was trading at $72.68 at the start of the year. Since then, PB shares have decreased by 17.1% and is now trading at $60.26.
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Prosperity Bancshares saw a decline in short interest during the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 2,470,000 shares, a decline of 12.7% from the February 13th total of 2,830,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 469,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.3 days. Currently, 2.8% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 26th 2023.
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Prosperity Bancshares, Inc. (NYSE:PB) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, January, 25th. The bank reported $1.51 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.50 by $0.01. The bank earned $346.32 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $296.52 million. Prosperity Bancshares had a net margin of 42.30% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 7.97%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $1.38 EPS.

Prosperity Bancshares declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 18th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, March 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.55 per share on Monday, April 3rd. This represents a $2.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.65%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, March 14th.
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Prosperity Bancshares (NYSE:PB) pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.54%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 25 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 38.39%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, PB will have a dividend payout ratio of 34.54% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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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 trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "PB."

Prosperity Bancshares' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Victory Capital Management Inc. (6.24%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (6.24%), American Century Companies Inc. (2.93%), Brown Advisory Inc. (2.80%), Morgan Stanley (2.62%) and Neuberger Berman Group LLC (2.32%). Insiders that own company stock include David Zalman, George A Fisk, H E Timanus Jr, Robert H Steelhammer and Robert J Dowdell.
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Shares of PB 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 PB stock can currently be purchased for approximately $60.26.

Prosperity Bancshares (NYSE:PB) has a market capitalization of $5.50 billion and generates $1.24 billion in revenue each year. The bank earns $524.52 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.73 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 3,633 workers across the globe.

Prosperity Bancshares' mailing address is 4295 SAN FELIPE, HOUSTON TX, 77027. The official website for the company is www.prosperitybankusa.com. The bank can be reached via phone at (281) 269-7199, via email at investor.relations@prosperitybanktx.com, or via fax at 281-269-7222.