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PEBO

Peoples Bancorp Inc. Common Stock

Finance · ·

$41.16

$0.44 (-1.1%)

Market Cap

$1.48B

Day Range

$41.13 - $41.99

52-Week Range

$27.49 - $42.29

Beta

Next Earnings

19.10.2026

🏢 Similar Stocks in the Same Sector

+47.6% (1Y)

Investor Score
64/ 100C+
🟡 Moderate

This score and all analysis on this page are for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice. Read the full disclaimer

📈91A+Technical
💰56CFundamental
🚀34FGrowth
💎67B-Valuation
📰62C+News
🏦58CQuality
⚠️58CRisk

Weighted: Technical 25% · Fundamental 20% · Growth 15% · Valuation 15% · News 10% · Quality 10% · Risk 5%

🔍 Cross-Check

Overall Score

🟡 Mixed

Technical Trend

🟢 Bullish

Insiders

🟢 Bullish

✅ Why is the score relatively high?

  • 🟢 Estimated fair value: $48.87 vs. price $41.16 (+18.7%)
  • 🟢 Operating margin is stable or improving over time
  • 🟢 ATR: 1.8% of price
  • 🟢 Price is above the 50-day average
  • 🟢 Price is above the 200-day average

⚠️ What's concerning?

  • 🔴 Earnings per share (EPS) growth: -9.7%
  • 🔴 Free cash flow growth: -5.6%
  • 🔴 Net income growth: -8.9%
  • 🔴 Return on equity (ROE): 8.8% — weak
  • 🔴 Return on assets (ROA): 1.1% — weak

🚦 Quality & Risk Checks

🟢 Operating margin stability🟡 Conservative leverage🟢 Daily volatility (ATR)🟡 Leverage risk

📰 News Trend

Based on real financial news (Finnhub)
🟡 Mixed

Everyone's writing about Peoples Bancorp Inc. Common Stock. News trend score: 62. Reason: 2 of the last 2 articles are positive, versus 0 negative.

News trend analysis is based on article sentiment only, and is not investment advice or financial counsel. Read the full disclaimer

📈 Technical Analysis

Based on the last 251 trading days, calculated from real price data. Click an indicator for details and a chart.

🟢 Most indicators support an uptrend (10 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 neutral)

Conclusions

  • 🟢Price vs. SMA 50Price is above the 50-day average
  • 🟢Price vs. SMA 200Price is above the 200-day average
  • 🟢MACDMACD histogram is positive — rising momentum
  • 🟢RSIRSI 68.2 — healthy positive momentum
  • 🟡Stochastic%K 79.9 — neutral range
  • 🟢ADX (trend strength)ADX 43.7 — strong trend
  • 🟢Relative strength vs. S&P 500+17.1% over the last 3 months relative to the index
  • 🟢Bollinger BandsPrice is in the upper third of the Bollinger Bands (76%B) — strong momentum (risk of a pullback)
  • 🟢ROC (rate of change)ROC 12 days: 5.6%
  • 🟢Parabolic SARPrice is above the SAR point — uptrend
  • 🟢CMF (money flow)CMF 20 days: 0.27

Wyckoff Method Analysis

A market-structure read based purely on real price and volume data — not full classic Wyckoff schematic identification (Phase A-E), but a quantitative analysis of what can reliably be computed: trading ranges, "effort vs. result", volume within the range, and Spring/Upthrust detection.

Markup

The stock is in a clear uptrend with no defined trading range in the period examined.

High confidence

Evidence Behind This Read

  • 🟢Rising price trendA 19.1% change over the last 50 days, with no defined trading range.

The Wyckoff Method, developed by Richard Wyckoff in the early 20th century, reads the balance of supply and demand through price and volume, based on the premise that large investors ("smart money") quietly accumulate shares before rallies and quietly distribute them before declines. The read here is based solely on real price and volume data — full, precise identification of classic Wyckoff patterns (such as Phases A-E) requires human chart-reading experience and judgment, so this is an approximate algorithmic read, not a substitute for professional analysis. This should not be considered investment advice.

🎯 Trade Planning (M.A.E.E Framework)

Based on a mechanical trading method: market structure → value zone → ATR-based exit point. Not investment advice — a calculation tool only.

1️⃣ Market Structure

🟢 Uptrend

The price is above the 200-day average — per the market-structure method, this environment mainly favors looking for buying (Long) opportunities.

2️⃣ Value Zone

🟡 Price far from value zone

The price is currently far from the 50-day average — the method recommends waiting for a "pullback" before entering, rather than chasing prices.

3️⃣ Suggested Exit Point (ATR-based)

Method formula: Stop-loss = support minusone ATR margin — this way the stop adapts to the stock's actual volatility, rather than an arbitrary number.

Entry

$41.60

Stop-Loss

$33.29

Risk per Share

$8.31

Direction

Long

Profit Targets by Risk/Reward Ratio (R)

1:2 R

$58.21

1:3 R

$66.52

1:5 R

$83.13

💰 Position Size Calculator

A core principle of the method: never risk a fixed dollar amount — risk a fixed percentage of equity, and let the position size vary according to the risk per share.

Suggested Position Size

12 sh.

💰 Financial Health

Profitability

Gross Margin

Operating Margin

155.4%

Net Margin

123.1%

EBITDA Margin

172.1%

Efficiency

ROE

8.8%

ROA

1.1%

ROIC

EPS

$3.03

Balance Sheet

Cash

$188.95M

Total Debt

$734.42M

Current Ratio

Debt/Equity

0.61

Conclusions

  • 🟢Operating marginOperating margin: 155.4% — strong
  • 🟢Net marginNet margin: 123.1% — strong
  • 🔴Return on equity (ROE)Return on equity (ROE): 8.8% — weak
  • 🔴Return on assets (ROA)Return on assets (ROA): 1.1% — weak
  • 🟡Debt-to-equityDebt/equity: 0.61

🚀 Growth

Revenue

Earnings per Share (EPS)

Net Income

Free Cash Flow (FCF)

Conclusions

  • 🟡Revenue growth (last year)Revenue growth (last year): 2.3%
  • 🔴Earnings per share (EPS) growthEarnings per share (EPS) growth: -9.7%
  • 🔴Free cash flow growthFree cash flow growth: -5.6%
  • 🔴Net income growthNet income growth: -8.9%

💵 Dividends

Total dividend per share paid each year, over the last 5 years.

Annual Dividend per Share

Ex-Dividend DateAmount per Share
3.8.2026$0.420
4.5.2026$0.420
2.2.2026$0.410
4.11.2025$0.410
4.8.2025$0.410
5.5.2025$0.410
3.2.2025$0.400
4.11.2024$0.400
5.8.2024$0.400
3.5.2024$0.400
2.2.2024$0.390
3.11.2023$0.390

💎 Fair Value (Valuation)

Current Price

$41.16

Estimated Fair Value (DCF)

$48.87

Gap

+18.7%

🟢 Appears cheap relative to estimated value

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Year 1 Growth Rate

7.5%

Discount Rate (WACC)

9.0%

Terminal Growth Rate

2.5%

Projection Years

5

YearGrowth RateProjected FCFPresent Value
17.5%$138.38M$126.96M
26.3%$147.06M$123.78M
35.0%$154.43M$119.25M
43.8%$160.23M$113.51M
52.5%$164.24M$106.74M

Base FCF (last actual year)

$128.70M

Terminal Value

$2.59B

Present Value of Terminal Value

$1.68B

Enterprise Value

$2.27B

Net Debt

$545.47M

Equity Value

$1.73B

*The DCF model is an estimate based on assumptions — not a guaranteed forecast. You can change the assumptions to examine different scenarios.

Book Value per Share

$34.13

Tangible Book Value per Share (Tangible NAV)

$23.00

Conclusions

  • 🟢DCF Fair ValueEstimated fair value: $48.87 vs. price $41.16 (+18.7%)
  • 🟡Tangible Net Asset Value (NAV)NAV per share: $23.00
  • 🟢P/EP/E: 13.9

🕴️ Insider Trading

Real transactions by officers and insiders, as reported to the SEC on Form 4 — 1 purchases and 0 sales out of the last 25 filings.

NameTransaction TypeDateSharesChangePrice
JAMES BROOKE WILLIAMSGrant/Award from Employer30.6.2026266,499+341$38.41
SCHNEEBERGER CAROL AGrant/Award from Employer30.6.202619,049+341$38.41
BEAM S CRAIGGrant/Award from Employer30.6.202627,542+341$38.41
VITTORIO MICHAEL NGrant/Award from Employer30.6.202611,929+341$38.41
Dierker David FGrant/Award from Employer30.6.20264,010+341$38.41
Dierker David FGrant/Award from Employer30.6.202622,787+246$38.41
Smith Dwight EricGrant/Award from Employer30.6.20262,514+365$38.41
Hogan W GlennGrant/Award from Employer30.6.2026536,416+341$38.41
SKINNER FRANCES AGrant/Award from Employer30.6.202614,608+497$38.41
Rector Susan D.Grant/Award from Employer30.6.202632,003+1,368$38.41
Macia Matthew JosephOther Transaction30.6.202611,027+46$32.65
Kirkham Michael RyanOther Transaction30.6.202616,309+9$32.65
Augenstein MarkOther Transaction30.6.202626,865+18$32.65
Wilcox Tyler JOther Transaction30.6.202667,803+138$32.65
Bailey Kathryn MOther Transaction30.6.202647,870+46$32.65
Reeves Kevin RGrant/Award from Employer30.6.202614,311+341$38.41
Edgell MatthewOther Transaction30.6.202623,183+163$32.65
Smith Dwight EricOpen Market Purchase27.4.20269,256+1,000$34.51
JAMES BROOKE WILLIAMSGrant/Award from Employer31.3.2026266,158+399$32.87
SCHNEEBERGER CAROL AGrant/Award from Employer31.3.202618,708+399$32.87
BEAM S CRAIGGrant/Award from Employer31.3.202627,201+399$32.87
VITTORIO MICHAEL NGrant/Award from Employer31.3.202611,588+399$32.87
Dierker David FGrant/Award from Employer31.3.20263,669+399$32.87
Dierker David FGrant/Award from Employer31.3.202622,541+277$32.87
Smith Dwight EricGrant/Award from Employer31.3.20262,149+421$32.87

📉 Short Interest

Official FINRA data — the number of shares open in short positions, plus daily short-sale activity.

Monthly Trend — Open Short Interest

-2.6%

1,719,037 shares short as of 2026-07-15 · vs. 1,764,549 on 2026-06-30

Official biweekly report (FINRA Rule 4560) — no real higher-frequency data exists for this metric.

Weekly Trend — Daily Short-Sale Activity

-10.6%

61.2% of trading volume this week was short selling, vs. 68.4% the prior week

Based on daily short-sale volume (Reg SHO) — a different metric from the open short interest above: this is daily trading volume, not an open position, so it updates weekly rather than biweekly.

📰 News & Sentiment

Sentiment based on basic keywords (not AI) — 2 positive, 0 neutral, 0 negative out of the last 2 articles.