How Will E.W. Scripps Co (NASDAQ: SSP) Perform In Months To Come?

E.W. Scripps Co (NASDAQ:SSP) has a beta value of 1.68 and has seen 2.09 million shares traded in the last trading session. The company, currently valued at $197.21M, closed the last trade at $2.29 per share which meant it gained $0.02 on the day or 0.88% during that session. The SSP stock price is -308.3% off its 52-week high price of $9.35 and 26.64% above the 52-week low of $1.68. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 0.86 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 711.70K shares.

The consensus among analysts is that E.W. Scripps Co (SSP) is Hold stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.60. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 1 out of 1 have rated it as a Hold, with 0 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 0.98.

3 Tiny Stocks Primed to Explode The world's greatest investor — Warren Buffett — has a simple formula for making big money in the markets. He buys up valuable assets when they are very cheap. For stock market investors that means buying up cheap small cap stocks like these with huge upside potential.

We've set up an alert service to help smart investors take full advantage of the small cap stocks primed for big returns.

Click here for full details and to join for free
Sponsored

E.W. Scripps Co (NASDAQ:SSP) trade information

Sporting 0.88% in the green in last session, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the SSP stock price touched $2.29 or saw a rise of 43.6%. Year-to-date, E.W. Scripps Co shares have moved -71.34%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -23.92%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of E.W. Scripps Co (NASDAQ:SSP) have changed -6.53%. Short interest in the company has seen 2.97 million shares shorted with days to cover at 3.78.

E.W. Scripps Co (SSP) estimates and forecasts

The company’s shares have lost -46.62% over the past 6 months, compared to 0.70% for the industry. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 8.90%.

3 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 717.17M for the current quarter. 1 have an estimated revenue figure of 536M for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 615.77M and 561.46M respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 16.50% for the current quarter and 8.90% for the next.

Earnings growth for 2024 is a modest 443.51% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 10.00%.

SSP Dividends

E.W. Scripps Co is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Feb-21 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue.

E.W. Scripps Co (NASDAQ:SSP)’s Major holders

Insiders own 17.45% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 79.46% with a share float percentage of 96.25%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with E.W. Scripps Co having a total of 207.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are BLACKROCK INC. with over 4.89 million shares worth more than $15.36 million. As of 2024-06-30, BLACKROCK INC. held 5.7608% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, with the holding of over 4.43 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $13.91 million and represent 5.2173% of shares outstanding.