In recent trading session, SLM Corp (NASDAQ:SLM) saw 0.63 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.07. Company’s recent per share price level of $27.82 trading at -$0.32 or -1.14% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $5.85B. That most recent trading price of SLM’s stock is at a discount of -17.36% from its 52-week high price of $32.65 and is indicating a premium of 30.3% from its 52-week low price of $19.39. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 2.26 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 3.08 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For SLM Corp (SLM), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.45. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 10 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 1 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 8 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.54 in the current quarter.
SLM Corp (NASDAQ:SLM) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -1.14%, in the last five days SLM remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Friday, 04/25/25 when the stock touched $27.82 price level, adding 2.15% to its value on the day. SLM Corp’s shares saw a change of 0.87% in year-to-date performance and have moved 3.88% in past 5-day. SLM Corp (NASDAQ:SLM) showed a performance of -7.05% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 5.92 million shares which calculate 1.57 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 26 to the stock, which implies a fall of -7.0% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 18 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 27. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 35.3% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 35.3% for stock’s current value.
SLM Corp (SLM) estimates and forecasts
This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 2.34% from the last financial year’s standing.
3 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 366.43M for the same. And 3 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 379.77M in the next quarter. Company posted 372.17M and 359.4M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 15.53% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 15.88% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 12.36%.
SLM Dividends
SLM Corp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-23 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 1.73%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.48 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 1.83%.
SLM Corp (NASDAQ:SLM)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 1.18% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 103.39 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 104.62%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 103.39% institutions for SLM Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at SLM for having 31.62 million shares of worth $657.42 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 14.4442 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is IMPACTIVE CAPITAL LP, which was holding about 19.7 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 8.9974 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $409.51 million.
On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 6.87 shares of worth $192.94 million or 3.27% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 6.66 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $187.03 million in the company or a holder of 3.17% of company’s stock.
