In recent trading session, Star Bulk Carriers Corp (NASDAQ:SBLK) saw 1.04 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 0.95. Company’s recent per share price level of $18.84 trading at $0.63 or 3.49% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $2.21B. That most recent trading price of SBLK’s stock is at a discount of -30.1% from its 52-week high price of $24.51 and is indicating a premium of 35.99% from its 52-week low price of $12.06. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 1.82 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.40 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Star Bulk Carriers Corp (SBLK), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.25. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 12 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 1 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 3 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 8 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Star Bulk Carriers Corp (NASDAQ:SBLK) trade information
Upright in the green today for gaining 3.49%, in the last five days SBLK remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 07/17/25 when the stock touched $18.84 price level, adding 1.26% to its value on the day. Star Bulk Carriers Corp’s shares saw a change of -21.36% in year-to-date performance and have moved 4.58% in past 5-day. Star Bulk Carriers Corp (NASDAQ:SBLK) showed a performance of 10.72% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 2.74 million shares which calculate 1.97 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 22.5 to the stock, which implies a rise of 16.27% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 20.2 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 26. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -7.22% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -7.22% for stock’s current value.
In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -44.35% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 11.72%.
SBLK Dividends
Star Bulk Carriers Corp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-May-14 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 7.64%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.44 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 15.06%.
Star Bulk Carriers Corp (NASDAQ:SBLK)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 22.16% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 33.68 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 43.27%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 33.68% institutions for Star Bulk Carriers Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. OAKTREE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP is the top institutional holder at SBLK for having 7.97 million shares of worth $194.22 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 7.2749 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, which was holding about 4.19 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 3.8296 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $102.24 million.
