BankUnited (BKU) Stock Price, News & Analysis

10 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BankUnited in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings and 8 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "reduce" BKU shares.
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10 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for BankUnited's shares. Their BKU share price targets range from $28.00 to $33.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $30.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 16.8% from the stock's current price.
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BankUnited's stock was trading at $32.43 at the start of the year. Since then, BKU stock has decreased by 19.5% and is now trading at $26.12.
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BankUnited saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 3,470,000 shares, an increase of 5.8% from the March 15th total of 3,280,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 896,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.9 days. Currently, 4.7% 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 Tuesday, July 23rd 2024.
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BankUnited, Inc. (NYSE:BKU) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, April, 17th. The financial services provider reported $0.64 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.62 by $0.02. The financial services provider had revenue of $508.35 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $239.84 million. BankUnited had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.06% and a net margin of 8.71%. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.70 earnings per share.

BankUnited announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 22nd. Stockholders of record on Friday, April 12th will be given a dividend of $0.29 per share on Tuesday, April 30th. This represents a $1.16 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.44%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, April 11th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.27.
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BankUnited (NYSE:BKU) pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.74%. BKU has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 50.00%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BKU will have a dividend payout ratio of 40.14% 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 BankUnited (NYSE:BKU) stock in their portfolio include Invesco KBW Regional Banking ETF (KBWR), SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF (KRE), SPDR S&P Bank ETF (KBE), Direxion Daily Regional Banks Bull 3x Shares (DPST), First Trust Small Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund (FYT) and EA Bridgeway Omni Small-Cap Value ETF (BSVO).First Trust Small Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund (FYX).

18 employees have rated BankUnited Chief Executive Officer Raj Singh on Glassdoor.com. Raj Singh has an approval rating of 62% among the company's employees. This puts Raj Singh in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other BankUnited investors own include Citigroup (C), Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), Boeing (BA), General Motors (GM), Intel (INTC), KeyCorp (KEY), AT&T (T), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Bank of America (BAC).

BankUnited's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Congress Asset Management Co. MA (0.26%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.16%), Hennion & Walsh Asset Management Inc. (0.01%) and GAMMA Investing LLC (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include A Gail Prudenti, Douglas J Pauls, Jay D Richards, John N Digiacomo and Kevin A Malcolm.
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