SFL Corporation Ltd (NYSE: SFL) Continues To Thrive In 2025, As Its Stock Is Down -18.69% Year-To-Date

During the last session, SFL Corporation Ltd (NYSE:SFL)’s traded shares were 0.81 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.55. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $8.31, reflecting an intraday gain of 0.36% or $0.03. The 52-week high for the SFL share is $14.62, that puts it down -75.93 from that peak though still a striking 18.41% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $6.78. The company’s market capitalization is $1.21B, and the average trade volume was 1.43 million shares over the past three months.

SFL Corporation Ltd (SFL) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.00. SFL has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 4 analysts who have looked at this stock. 2 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 2 recommend a Buy rating for it.

SFL Corporation Ltd (NYSE:SFL) trade information

SFL Corporation Ltd (SFL) registered a 0.36% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 0.36% in intraday trading to $8.31, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 0.36%, and it has moved by 8.34% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -39.39%.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $14.5, which implies an increase of 42.69% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $13 and $16 respectively. As a result, SFL is trading at a discount of -92.54% off the target high and -56.44% off the low.

An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 3.93%. While earnings are projected to return -104.79% in 2025.

SFL Dividends

SFL Corporation Ltd is due to release its next quarterly earnings in June. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for SFL Corporation Ltd is 1.08, with the dividend yield indicating at 13.00 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years.

The next largest institutional holding, with 6.05 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 4.8008% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $83.91 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of SFL Corporation Ltd (SFL) shares are iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF and DFA INVESTMENT DIMENSIONS GROUP INC-U.S. SMALL CAP VALUE PORTFOLIO . Data provided on Mar 31, 2025 indicates that iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF owns about 3.36 shares. This amounts to just over 2.31 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $27.93 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 2.11, or about 1.45% of the stock, which is worth about $17.54 million.