Key Factors to Monitor for Equity Bancshares (EQBK)

By Chris Stiles • Thursday, February 15 08:09 • Permanent Link

Equity Bancshares logged a 2.6% change during today's morning session, and is now trading at a price of $32.46 per share. On average, analysts give it a target price of $37.8.

Equity Bancshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Equity Bank that provides a range of banking, mortgage banking, and financial services to individual and corporate customers. The small-cap company is based in the United States. Equity Bancshares currently returns an annual dividend yield of 1.4%.

What to Consider if You Are Thinking of Buying Equity Bancshares:

Equity Bancshares has moved 4.0% over the last year.
EQBK has a forward P/E ratio of 7.5 based on its EPS guidance of 4.34.
The company has a price to earnings growth (PEG) ratio of 0.84.
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 1.11

Equity Bancshares Has Positive Cash Flows

Date Reported	Cash Flow from Operations ($ k)	Capital expenditures ($ k)	Free Cash Flow ($ k)	YoY Growth (%)
2023	79,932	14,421	65,511	-7.2
2022	74,073	3,479	70,594	-27.67
2021	102,698	5,101	97,597	186.44
2020	43,621	9,549	34,072	-18.04
2019	48,521	6,948	41,573	49.36
2018	36,666	8,831	27,835

The firm's free cash flows have a decent average of $56.2 Million over the last 5 years. The compounded average growth rate over this period is 13.5%, with a year-on-year growth variability coefficient of 291.82%.

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