Piper Sandler raised the price target for the Provident Financial Services Inc (NYSE:PFS) stock from “a Neutral” to “an Overweight”. The rating was released on August 22, 2023, according to finviz. The research report from RBC Capital Mkts has upgraded the stock from Sector Perform to Outperform, with a price target set at $26. In their research brief published October 11, 2019, RBC Capital Mkts analysts initiated the Provident Financial Services Inc stock to Sector Perform with a price target of $26.
The latest trade, Performances and Moving Averages give us the following Picture
The firm’s stock price fluctuated 1.21% within the last five trades and -2.98% within the last 30 trades, which was a significant change from the beginning of this year. Despite the fact that the share price decreased -4.03% in the last 6 months and -16.29% was subtracted to its value over the previous 3 months. PFS stock is trading at a margin of 0.37%, -5.79% and -8.23% apart from the 20-Day, 50-Day and 200-Day Simple Moving Average prices.
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As of the close of trading, PFS deals in the Financial domain. The stock is trading -28.40 percent below its 52-week high and 11.69 percent above its 52-week low. For example, looking both at the price and the high and low measurements of 52 weeks will give you a clearer picture of the direction the price is heading. The firm’s Weighted Alpha is -21.7. A positive weighted alpha indicates the firm has done well over the course of the year, whereas one below 0 indicates that the firm has done poorly.
What Does Provident Financial Services Inc’s Profitability and Valuation Ratios Tell Us About the Stock?
With regard to the profitability of the company, the operating margin is currently at 27.01 percent and the profit margin is 18.46 percent. The profit margin, also known as the revenue ratio or gross profit ratio, is an efficiency figure used to estimate the business’s profitability by comparing net income and sales. The higher the number, the more profits are generated for the company and vice versa.
The stock’s market cap achieved a total value of $1.13 billion as of the last trading session. Market capitalization is the total value of all outstanding shares of a corporation and it is used to measure a company’s market value. The price-to-earnings ratio for Provident Financial Services Inc (NYSE:PFS) is 8.74. The price-to-earnings ratio is a method of assessing corporate values by comparing them to their per-share profit. Forward P/E stands at 6.91. Forward price-to-earnings is calculated using predicted earnings for the next financial year’s P/E determination. The stock has achieved an effective Price-to-Sales Ratio of 1.63 that mirrors the cost to be found for sales by the market. The firm managed a Price-to-Book ratio of 0.67, which equates the market value of a stock with its book value.
Is Insider Trading a Real Thing?
Almost all investors and traders prefer to invest in shares controlled by the management of a corporation as a management company will be more likely to run the business itself and to never conduct things against the management’s desires and will always try to do what is best for their shareholders. Currently, 9.14 percent of Provident Financial Services Inc shares are owned by insiders, and 73.47 percent are held by financial institutions. LISTA GEORGE, the Pres/CEO Prov Protection Plus at Provident Financial Services Inc (PFS) has bought 1,094 shares of firm on Feb 05 ’24 at a price of $15.85 against the total amount of $17335.0. In another inside trade, McNerney Robert, Director of Provident Financial Services Inc (NYSE:PFS) sold 5,000 shares of the firm on Jan 30 ’24 for a total worth of $89312.0 at a price of $17.86. An inside trade which took place on Nov 10 ’23, Director of Provident Financial Services Inc Dunigan James P bought 200 shares of firm against total price of $2850.0 at the cost of $14.25 per share.
