When putting together your watch list, focus on stocks with an 80 or higher RS Rating. Hancock Whitney just met that criteria with a new score of 87.
This proprietary rating measures market leadership by showing how a stock's price action over the last 52 weeks compares to that of other stocks on the major indexes.
Decades of market research reveals that the stocks that go on to make the biggest gains tend to have an 80 or higher RS Rating as they launch their biggest runs.
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Hancock Whitney is not currently near a potential buying area. See if the stock goes on to build a promising consolidation that could launch a new move.
Regarding top and bottom line numbers, the company has posted four quarters of accelerating earnings growth. Sales growth has also increased during the same period.
The company holds the No. 31 rank among its peers in the Banks-Southeast industry group. MetroCity Bankshares, USCB Financial Holdings and Village Bank & Trust are among the top 5 highly rated stocks within the group.
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