Heritage Commerce Corp (HTBK) Shares on the Decline: Short-term Analysis

Heritage Commerce Corp [HTBK] stock prices are down -0.10% to $10.50 at the moment. In order to assess the stock’s recent performance, you can check whether its short-term value is rising or falling. The HTBK shares have lost -2.33% over the last week, with a monthly amount glided 9.03%, and seem to be holding up well over a long-time horizon.

From an analyst’s perspective:

Heritage Commerce Corp [NASDAQ: HTBK] stock has seen the most recent analyst activity on February 07, 2025, when Stephens upgraded its rating to a Overweight. Previously, Stephens downgraded its rating to Equal-Weight on August 11, 2023, and kept the price target unchanged to $10. On October 31, 2022, downgrade downgraded it’s rating to Outperform and revised its price target to $15 on the stock. Stephens started tracking the stock assigning a Overweight rating and suggested a price target of $13.50 on December 28, 2021. DA Davidson upgraded its rating to a Buy but $13.50 remained the price target by the analyst firm on December 15, 2021. DA Davidson downgraded its rating to Neutral for this stock on December 18, 2020, and upped its price target to $9.50. In a note dated April 26, 2019, Brean Capital downgraded an Hold rating on this stock.

The stock price of Heritage Commerce Corp [HTBK] has been fluctuating between $7.66 and $11.27 over the past year. Currently, Wall Street analysts expect the stock to reach $12.5 within the next 12 months. Heritage Commerce Corp [NASDAQ: HTBK] shares were valued at $10.50 at the most recent close of the market. An investor can expect a potential return of 19.05% based on the average HTBK price forecast.

Analyzing the HTBK fundamentals

The Heritage Commerce Corp [NASDAQ:HTBK] reported sales of 251.43M for trailing twelve months, representing a surge of 9.81%. Gross Profit Margin for this corporation currently stands at 1.0% with Operating Profit Margin at 0.53%, Pretax Profit Margin comes in at 0.33%, and Net Profit Margin reading is 0.24%. To continue investigating profitability, this company’s Return on Assets is posted at 7.18, Equity is 0.08 and Total Capital is 16.06.

Before buying any particular stock, readers tend to pay close attention to the indicators that support and create resistance. The company’s stock is currently sitting at 10.38 points at the first support level, and at 10.27 for the second support level. However, for the 1st resistance point, the stock is sitting at 10.63, and for the 2nd resistance point, it is at 10.76.

Ratios To Look Out For

It’s worth pointing out that Heritage Commerce Corp [NASDAQ:HTBK]’s Current Ratio is 0.45. Considering the valuation of this stock, the price to sales ratio is 2.56, the price to book ratio is 0.93 and price to earnings (TTM) ratio is 16.00.

Transactions by insiders

Recent insider trading involved Conner Jack W, Director, that happened on Feb 26 ’25 when 4000.0 shares were purchased.

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