SM Energy Co (NYSE:SM)’s traded shares stood at 0.55 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 2.18. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $22.03, to imply a decrease of -10.52% or -$2.59 in intraday trading. The SM share’s 52-week high remains $52.83, putting it -139.81% down since that peak but still an impressive 10.71% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $19.67. The company has a valuation of $2.52B, with an average of 3.18 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 2.39 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for SM Energy Co (SM), translating to a mean rating of 2.00. Of 19 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give SM a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 3 advise Hold as 16 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 1.57.
SM Energy Co (NYSE:SM) trade information
After registering a -10.52% downside in the latest session, SM Energy Co (SM) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -13.03%, and -26.02% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -43.16%. Short interest in SM Energy Co (NYSE:SM) saw shorts transact 11.75 million shares and set a 4.3 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $33 and $60 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, SM has been trading -172.36% off suggested target high and -49.8% from its likely low.
SM Energy Co (SM) estimates and forecasts
The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 26.39% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 11 analysts is 823.29M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 11 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 833.82M.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 559.87M and 634.55M respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 47.05% before jumping 31.40% in the following quarter.
SM Dividends
SM Energy Co has its next earnings report out on 2025-Feb-18. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. SM Energy Co has a forward dividend ratio of 0.76, with the share yield ticking at 3.45% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 1.01%.
SM Energy Co (NYSE:SM)’s Major holders
SM Energy Co insiders hold 1.54% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 102.95% of the shares at 104.55% float percentage. In total, 102.95% institutions holds shares in the company, led by BLACKROCK INC.. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 19.71 million shares (or 17.1953% of shares), all amounting to roughly $852.13 million.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 14.34 million shares, or about 12.4033% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $620.07 million.
We also have iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and Pacer Funds Trust-Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows ETF as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the SM Energy Co (SM) shares. Going by data provided on Feb 28, 2025 , iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF holds roughly 7.29 shares. This is just over 6.37% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $158.03 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 3.89, or 3.40% of the shares, all valued at about 84.37 million.
