ESSA Bancorp is a banks - regional business based in the US. ESSA Bancorp shares (ESSA) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $18.95 – an increase of 1.88% over the previous week. ESSA Bancorp employs 236 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $66.3 million.
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| Latest market close | $18.95 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $15.67 - $22.05 |
| 50-day moving average | $18.93 |
| 200-day moving average | $19.31 |
| Wall St. target price | $19.00 |
| PE ratio | 12.2258 |
| Dividend yield | $0.6 (3.16%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $1.55 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $18.95 from 2025-05-05
| 1 week (2025-04-29) | 1.88% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-07) | 10.69% |
| 3 months (2025-02-07) | -13.03% |
| 6 months (2024-11-07) | -3.12% |
| 1 year (2024-05-07) | 12.46% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-05) | 43.09% |
| 3 years (2022-05-06) | 23.57% |
| 5 years (2020-05-06) | 84.28% |
Valuing ESSA Bancorp stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of ESSA Bancorp's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
ESSA Bancorp's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 12x. In other words, ESSA Bancorp shares trade at around 12x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
| Revenue TTM | $66.3 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 30.14% |
| Gross profit TTM | $66.3 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 0.68% |
| Return on equity TTM | 6.43% |
| Profit margin | 22.28% |
| Book value | $24.80 |
| Market Capitalization | $192.4 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 38.72% of net profits
Recently ESSA Bancorp has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), ESSA Bancorp shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In ESSA Bancorp's case, that would currently equate to about $0.6 per share.
While ESSA Bancorp's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that ESSA Bancorp may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
ESSA Bancorp's most recent dividend payout was on 30 March 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 16 March 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Over the last 12 months, ESSA Bancorp's shares have ranged in value from as little as $15.6672 up to $22.0473. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while ESSA Bancorp's is 0.491. This would suggest that ESSA Bancorp's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
ESSA Bancorp, Inc. operates as a bank holding company for ESSA Bank & Trust that provides a range of financial services to individuals, families, and businesses in Pennsylvania. The company accepts savings accounts, interest bearing demand accounts, checking accounts, money market accounts, club accounts, certificates of deposit and IRAs, and other qualified plan accounts, as well as commercial checking accounts. It also provides first mortgage loans for the purchase, construction, or refinancing of one- to four-family residential real estate property; commercial real estate loans; home equity loans and lines of credit; auto loans; and commercial and other consumer loans, as well as loans secured by deposits and personal unsecured loans. In addition, the company offers insurance benefits consulting services, such as health insurance, life insurance, short term and long term disability, dental, vision, 401(K) retirement planning, and individual health products, as well as asset management and trust, and investment services. It operates community offices in Monroe, Lehigh, Northampton, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery County. The company was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
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