How to buy Shore Bancshares stock | $14.78

Shore Bancshares, Inc is a banks-regional business based in the US. Shore Bancshares shares (SHBI) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Shore Bancshares employs 294 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$58.9 million.

How to buy shares in Shore 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 Shore Bancshares. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: SHBI. 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 Shore 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. At last close price of USD$14.78, 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 Shore Bancshares, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Shore 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.

Shore Bancshares share price

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Shore Bancshares shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-29.

Latest market close	USD$14.78
52-week range	USD$7.3693 - USD$16.8338
50-day moving average	USD$13.8635
200-day moving average	USD$11.2504
Wall St. target price	USD$14.5
PE ratio	11.722
Dividend yield	USD$0.48 (3.24%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$1.266

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Shore Bancshares price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $14.78 from 2020-12-18

1 week (2021-01-07)	-3.46%
1 month (2020-12-15)	3.07%
3 months (2020-10-15)	28.52%
6 months (2020-07-15)	51.75%

1 year (2020-01-15)	-10.75%
2 years (2019-01-15)	0.82%
3 years (2018-01-13)	N/A
5 years (2016-01-15)	38.39%

Is Shore Bancshares under- or over-valued?

Valuing Shore Bancshares stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Shore Bancshares's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Shore Bancshares's P/E ratio

Shore Bancshares'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, Shore Bancshares 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.

Shore Bancshares's PEG ratio

Shore Bancshares's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.78. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Shore Bancshares's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Shore Bancshares financials

Revenue TTM	USD$58.9 million
Operating margin TTM	37.54%
Gross profit TTM	USD$59.5 million
Return on assets TTM	0.94%
Return on equity TTM	8.07%
Profit margin	26.9%
Book value	$16.278
Market capitalisation	USD$178.6 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Shore Bancshares shares

There are currently 164,165 Shore Bancshares shares held short by investors – that's known as Shore Bancshares's "short interest". This figure is 5.4% down from 173,577 last month.

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

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

Shore Bancshares's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Shore Bancshares shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Shore Bancshares shares traded daily (recently around 25650.78125). Shore Bancshares's SIR currently stands at 6.4. In other words for every 100,000 Shore Bancshares shares traded daily on the market, roughly 6400 shares are currently held short.

However Shore Bancshares's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Shore Bancshares shares, or, against the total number of tradable Shore Bancshares shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Shore Bancshares's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Shore Bancshares shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0139% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Shore Bancshares shares, roughly 14 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Shore Bancshares.

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

Shore Bancshares share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 37.8% of net profits

Recently Shore Bancshares has paid out, on average, around 37.8% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 3.24% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Shore Bancshares shareholders could enjoy a 3.24% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Shore Bancshares's case, that would currently equate to about $0.48 per share.

While Shore Bancshares's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Shore Bancshares may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

Shore Bancshares's most recent dividend payout was on 30 November 2020. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 12 November 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have Shore Bancshares's shares ever split?

Shore Bancshares's shares were split on a 3:2 basis on 6 June 2006. So if you had owned 2 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Shore Bancshares shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 33.3% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Shore Bancshares shares which in turn could have impacted Shore Bancshares's share price.

Shore Bancshares share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Shore Bancshares's shares have ranged in value from as little as $7.3693 up to $16.8338. 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 Shore Bancshares's is 0.8997. This would suggest that Shore Bancshares's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Shore Bancshares overview

Shore Bancshares, Inc. operates as a bank holding company for the Shore United Bank that provides various commercial banking products and services to individuals, businesses, and other organizations. It offers various deposit products, including checking, savings, and money market accounts; and regular and IRA certificates of deposit, as well as CDARS programs and cash management services. The company also provides commercial loans, such as secured and unsecured loans, working capital loans, lines of credit, term loans, accounts receivable financing, real estate acquisition and development loans, construction loans, and letters of credit; residential real estate construction loans; residential mortgage loans; and loans to consumers comprising home equity, automobile, installment, home improvement, and personal lines of credit. In addition, it offers safe deposit boxes; debit and credit cards; direct deposit of payroll; merchant credit card clearing services; telephone, mobile, and Internet banking services; and automatic teller machine (ATM) services. Further, the company provides non-deposit products, such as mutual funds and annuities, and discount brokerage services; and trust, asset management, and financial planning services. It operates 21 full service branches, 23 ATMs, 2 loan production offices in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Howard County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Caroline County, Talbot County, Worcester, and Dorchester County in Maryland; Kent County, Delaware; and Accomack County, Virginia. Shore Bancshares, Inc. was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Easton, Maryland.

Frequently asked questions

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

  Currently 2.078% of Shore Bancshares shares are held by insiders and 69.017% by institutions.

• How many people work for Shore Bancshares?

  Latest data suggests 294 work at Shore Bancshares.

• When does the fiscal year end for Shore Bancshares?

  Shore Bancshares's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Shore Bancshares based?

  Shore Bancshares's address is: 28969 Information Lane, Easton, MD, United States, 21601

• What is Shore Bancshares's ISIN number?

  Shore Bancshares's international securities identification number is: US8251071051

• What is Shore Bancshares's CUSIP number?

  Shore Bancshares's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 825107105