Commerce Bancshares (CBSH) Stock Price, News & Analysis

6 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Commerce Bancshares in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" CBSH shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CBSH, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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6 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Commerce Bancshares' shares. Their CBSH share price targets range from $50.00 to $61.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $55.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.4% from the stock's current price.
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Commerce Bancshares' stock was trading at $53.41 at the beginning of the year. Since then, CBSH shares have increased by 1.6% and is now trading at $54.26.
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Commerce Bancshares saw a decline in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,050,000 shares, a decline of 5.1% from the March 15th total of 2,160,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 480,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.3 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July 17th 2024.
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Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBSH) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, April, 16th. The financial services provider reported $0.86 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.80 by $0.06. The financial services provider had revenue of $397.80 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $389.49 million. Commerce Bancshares had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 16.78% and a net margin of 23.33%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 2.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.90 earnings per share.

Commerce Bancshares declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 17th. Investors of record on Wednesday, June 5th will be paid a dividend of $0.27 per share on Tuesday, June 18th. This represents a $1.08 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.99%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, June 5th.
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Commerce Bancshares (NASDAQ:CBSH) pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.04%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 56 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 30.12%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CBSH will have a dividend payout ratio of 31.86% 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 Commerce Bancshares (NASDAQ:CBSH) stock in their portfolio include First Trust NASDAQ ABA Community Bank Index Fund (QABA), Invesco KBW Regional Banking ETF (KBWR), Roundhill S&P Dividend Monarchs ETF (KNGS), ProShares S&P MidCap 400 Dividend Aristocrats ETF (REGL), ProShares Russell US Dividend Growers ETF (TMDV), iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF (IAT), SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF (KRE) and SPDR S&P Bank ETF (KBE).

99 employees have rated Commerce Bancshares Chief Executive Officer John W Kemper on Glassdoor.com. John W Kemper has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts John W Kemper in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Commerce Bancshares investors own include Aflac (AFL), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), 3M (MMM), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Medtronic (MDT), PepsiCo (PEP), CVS Health (CVS), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Cintas (CTAS) and Hormel Foods (HRL).

Commerce Bancshares' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include CWM LLC (0.11%), Mountain Pacific Investment Advisers Inc. ID (0.10%), Atwood & Palmer Inc. (0.05%), Meyer Handelman Co. (0.02%), State of Michigan Retirement System (0.02%) and Handelsinvest Investeringsforvaltning (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Benjamin F Rassieur III, Blackford F Brauer, Charles G Kim, David L Roller, David W Kemper, Derrick Brooks, Douglas D Neff, John K Handy, John W Kemper, Jonathan M Kemper, Patricia R Kellerhals, Paula S Petersen, Robert S Holmes and Thomas J Noack.
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