Eagle Bancorp (EGBN) Stock Price, News & Analysis

1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Eagle Bancorp in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" EGBN shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in EGBN, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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1 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Eagle Bancorp's shares. Their EGBN share price targets range from $23.00 to $23.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $23.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 6.4% from the stock's current price.
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Eagle Bancorp's stock was trading at $30.14 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, EGBN shares have decreased by 28.3% and is now trading at $21.62.
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Eagle Bancorp saw a drop in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,110,000 shares, a drop of 14.2% from the March 15th total of 2,460,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 295,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 7.1 days. Currently, 7.3% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2024.
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Eagle Bancorp will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, April 25th at 10:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Eagle Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGBN) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, January, 24th. The financial services provider reported $0.67 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.76 by $0.09. The financial services provider earned $75.89 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $75.67 million. Eagle Bancorp had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.12% and a net margin of 15.54%.

Eagle Bancorp declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, March 28th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, April 18th will be paid a dividend of $0.45 per share on Tuesday, April 30th. This represents a $1.80 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 8.33%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, April 17th.
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Eagle Bancorp (NASDAQ:EGBN) pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 8.81%. EGBN has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The dividend payout ratio is 54.55%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EGBN will have a dividend payout ratio of 67.92% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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21 employees have rated Eagle Bancorp Chief Executive Officer Susan Riel on Glassdoor.com. Susan Riel has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Susan Riel in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 67.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Eagle Bancorp to a friend.

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Eagle Bancorp's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Profit Investment Management LLC (0.24%), Hennion & Walsh Asset Management Inc. (0.04%) and Riverview Trust Co (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include A Leslie Ludwig, Antonio F Marquez, Charles Levingston, Lindsey S Rheaume, Paul Saltzman, Ryan Riel, Susan G Riel and Theresa G Laplaca.
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