Bank OZK (OZK) Stock Price, News & Analysis

7 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Bank OZK in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" OZK shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in OZK, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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7 Wall Street research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Bank OZK's shares. Their OZK share price targets range from $39.00 to $58.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $48.14 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 13.5% from the stock's current price.
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Bank OZK's stock was trading at $49.83 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, OZK stock has decreased by 14.9% and is now trading at $42.42.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 17th 2024.
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Bank OZK will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, April 18th at 10:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Bank OZK (NASDAQ:OZK) released its earnings results on Friday, January, 19th. The company reported $1.50 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.46 by $0.04. The firm had revenue of $407.58 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $396.54 million. Bank OZK had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 15.13% and a net margin of 30.69%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 13.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $1.34 earnings per share.

Bank OZK announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, April 1st. Investors of record on Friday, April 12th will be paid a dividend of $0.39 per share on Friday, April 19th. This represents a $1.56 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.68%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 11th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.38.
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Bank OZK (NASDAQ:OZK) pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.65%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 28 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 26.58%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, OZK will have a dividend payout ratio of 25.28% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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132 employees have rated Bank OZK Chief Executive Officer George G. Gleason on Glassdoor.com. George G. Gleason has an approval rating of 92% among the company's employees. This puts George G. Gleason in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Bank OZK's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Congress Asset Management Co. MA (0.05%), Alaska Permanent Fund Corp (0.05%), BTC Capital Management Inc. (0.02%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.01%), GAMMA Investing LLC (0.00%) and Mather Group LLC. (0.00%).

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