Media coverage about Enterprise Financial Services Corporation (NASDAQ:EFSC) has been trending somewhat positive this week, according to Accern Sentiment. The research firm identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Enterprise Financial Services Corporation earned a news sentiment score of 0.10 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned headlines about the bank an impact score of 46.3384594841175 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock’s share price in the near future.
Enterprise Financial Services Corporation (NASDAQ:EFSC) opened at 38.30 on Friday. The company has a market cap of $898.59 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.67 and a beta of 0.85. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $39.58 and its 200 day moving average is $41.57. Enterprise Financial Services Corporation has a 52-week low of $30.12 and a 52-week high of $46.25.
Enterprise Financial Services Corporation (NASDAQ:EFSC) last released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, July 24th. The bank reported $0.56 EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.62 by $0.06. The firm had revenue of $53.57 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $51.91 million. Enterprise Financial Services Corporation had a net margin of 24.54% and a return on equity of 11.18%. Equities research analysts forecast that Enterprise Financial Services Corporation will post $2.52 earnings per share for the current year.
The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, September 29th. Stockholders of record on Friday, September 15th will be issued a dividend of $0.11 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 14th. This represents a $0.44 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.15%. Enterprise Financial Services Corporation’s dividend payout ratio is 18.97%.
Several equities analysts have recently weighed in on the stock. Zacks Investment Research lowered shares of Enterprise Financial Services Corporation from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, July 3rd. BidaskClub upgraded shares of Enterprise Financial Services Corporation from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Saturday, June 10th. Piper Jaffray Companies restated a “buy” rating and set a $48.00 price objective on shares of Enterprise Financial Services Corporation in a research report on Friday, July 28th. Finally, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods restated a “hold” rating and set a $45.00 price objective on shares of Enterprise Financial Services Corporation in a research report on Friday, June 2nd. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, two have issued a hold rating and one has issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. The stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $43.00.
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In other news, Director Michael Holmes acquired 2,556 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, August 15th. The stock was purchased at an average price of $38.74 per share, for a total transaction of $99,019.44. Following the completion of the acquisition, the director now directly owns 2,716 shares in the company, valued at approximately $105,217.84. The purchase was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Insiders own 5.60% of the company’s stock.
Enterprise Financial Services Corporation Company Profile
Enterprise Financial Services Corp is a financial holding company for a full service banking subsidiary, Enterprise Bank & Trust (the Bank). The Bank offers banking and wealth management services to individuals and business customers primarily located in the St. Louis, Kansas City and Phoenix metropolitan markets.
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