NuScale Power Corporation (NYSE: SMR) Stock: Instant Disaster Or Awesome Opportunity?

In the last trading session, 6.41 million shares of the NuScale Power Corporation (NYSE:SMR) were traded, and its beta was 1.57. Most recently the company’s share price was $15.15, and it changed around $0.3 or 2.02% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $2.02B. SMR currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $32.30, offering almost -113.2% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $4.61, which indicates that the current value has risen by an impressive 69.57% since then. We note from NuScale Power Corporation’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 7.7 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 10.36 million.

NuScale Power Corporation stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.90. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 1 out of 10 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 1 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 2 recommended SMR as a Hold, whereas 6 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. NuScale Power Corporation is expected to report earnings per share of -0.15 for the current quarter.

NuScale Power Corporation (NYSE:SMR) trade information

Instantly SMR has showed a green trend with a performance of 2.02% at the end of last trading. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 16.54 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 8.4%. The company’s shares are currently down -15.50% year-to-date, but still up 20.24% over the last five days. On the other hand, NuScale Power Corporation (NYSE:SMR) is -0.39% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 24.59 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 3.02 day(s).

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $21, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 27.86% from its current value. Analyst projections state that SMR is forecast to be at a low of $21 and a high of $21.

NuScale Power Corporation (SMR) estimates and forecasts

The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 44.43%, up from the previous year.

Consensus estimates provided by 4 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 3.43M in revenue for the current quarter. 4 analysts expect NuScale Power Corporation to make 3.45M in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 1.38M and 967k respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 148.80%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 257.00%.

Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -34.24%. NuScale Power Corporation earnings are expected to increase by 78.74% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 39.88% per year for the next five years.

SMR Dividends

NuScale Power Corporation’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Mar-02.

NuScale Power Corporation (NYSE:SMR)’s Major holders

Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 5.89% of NuScale Power Corporation shares, and 50.78% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 53.96%. NuScale Power Corporation stock is held by 402.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 8.7549% of the shares, which is about 6.97 million shares worth $81.45 million.

BLACKROCK INC., with 5.5659% or 4.98 million shares worth $58.27 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.

GLOBAL X FUNDS-Global X Uranium ETF and VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck Uranium and Nuclear ETF were the top two Mutual Funds as of Mar 31, 2025 . The former held 6.1 shares worth $92.48 million, making up 4.59% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck Uranium and Nuclear ETF held roughly 2.88 shares worth around $43.64 million, which represents about 2.17% of the total shares outstanding.