How to buy Equity Bancshares stock

Equity Bancshares, Inc is a banks-regional business based in the US. Equity Bancshares shares (EQBK) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars.

How to buy shares in Equity Bancshares

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Equity Bancshares. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: EQBK. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Equity Bancshares reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. Weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Equity Bancshares, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Equity Bancshares. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Equity Bancshares share price

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Equity Bancshares shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-02-23.

52-week range	USD$12.49 - USD$28.11
50-day moving average	USD$23.5812
200-day moving average	USD$19.4398
Wall St. target price	USD$26.5
PE ratio	10.6149
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$1.498

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Equity Bancshares financials

Revenue TTM	USD$132.3 million
Operating margin TTM	27.72%
Gross profit TTM	USD$132.3 million
Return on assets TTM	-1.88%
Return on equity TTM	-16.93%
Profit margin	-56.68%
Book value	$28.035
Market capitalisation	USD$366.4 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Equity Bancshares shares

There are currently 118,784 Equity Bancshares shares held short by investors – that's known as Equity Bancshares's "short interest". This figure is 9.9% up from 108,124 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Equity Bancshares shares can be evaluated.

Equity Bancshares's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Equity Bancshares's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Equity Bancshares shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Equity Bancshares shares traded daily (recently around 39202.640264026). Equity Bancshares's SIR currently stands at 3.03. In other words for every 100,000 Equity Bancshares shares traded daily on the market, roughly 3030 shares are currently held short.

However Equity Bancshares's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Equity Bancshares shares, or, against the total number of tradable Equity Bancshares shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Equity Bancshares's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Equity Bancshares shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0087% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Equity Bancshares shares, roughly 9 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Equity Bancshares.

Find out more about how you can short Equity Bancshares stock.

Equity Bancshares share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Equity Bancshares's shares have ranged in value from as little as $12.49 up to $28.11. 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 Equity Bancshares's is 0.7359. This would suggest that Equity Bancshares's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Equity Bancshares overview

Equity Bancshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Equity Bank that provides a range of financial services primarily to businesses, business owners, and individuals. The company accepts various demand, savings, money market, and time deposits. Its loan products include commercial and industrial, commercial real estate-backed, commercial lines of credit, working capital, term, equipment financing, acquisition, expansion and development, borrowing base, real estate construction, homebuilder, agricultural, government guaranteed, and other loans, as well as letters of credit and other loan products to national and regional companies, restaurant franchisees, hoteliers, real estate developers, manufacturing and industrial companies, agribusiness companies, and other businesses. The company's loan products also comprise various consumer loans to individuals and professionals, including residential real estate loans, home equity loans, home equity lines of credit, installment loans, unsecured and secured personal lines of credit, overdraft protection, and letters of credit. It also provides debit cards; online banking solutions, such as access to account balances, online transfers, online bill payment, and electronic delivery of customer statements; mobile banking solutions comprising remote check deposits with mobile bill pay; ATMs; and treasury management, wire transfer, automated clearing house, and stop payment services. In addition, the company offers cash management deposit products, such as lockbox, remote deposit capture, positive pay, reverse positive pay, account reconciliation services, zero balance accounts, and sweep accounts, as well as banking services through telephone, mail, and personal appointments. As of December 31, 2019, it operated 52 full-service branches in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Wichita, Kansas.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Equity Bancshares is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 5.74% of Equity Bancshares shares are held by insiders and 67.696% by institutions.

• When does the fiscal year end for Equity Bancshares?

  Equity Bancshares's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Equity Bancshares based?

  Equity Bancshares's address is: 7701 East Kellogg Drive, Wichita, KS, United States, 67207

• What is Equity Bancshares's ISIN number?

  Equity Bancshares's international securities identification number is: US29460X1090

• What is Equity Bancshares's CUSIP number?

  Equity Bancshares's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 29460X109