In last trading session, Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE:SMG) saw 0.84 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.99. Company’s recent per share price level of $65.74 trading at $0.76 or 1.17% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $3.79B. That closing price of SMG’s stock is at a discount of -42.84% from its 52-week high price of $93.90 and is indicating a premium of 30.62% from its 52-week low price of $45.61. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.83 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.34 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.78. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 4 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 2 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 2 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE:SMG) trade information
Upright in the green during last session for gaining 1.17%, in the last five days SMG remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Friday, 06/27/25 when the stock touched $65.74 price level, adding 1.22% to its value on the day. Scotts Miracle-Gro Company’s shares saw a change of -0.20% in year-to-date performance and have moved 6.27% in past 5-day. Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE:SMG) showed a performance of 9.88% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 4.39 million shares which calculate 3.85 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 72 to the stock, which implies a rise of 8.69% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 59 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 110. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 10.25% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 10.25% for stock’s current value.
In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 53.26% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 31.00%.
SMG Dividends
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-30 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 4.02%, the share has a forward dividend of 2.64 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 3.14%.
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE:SMG)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 24.11% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 74.32 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 97.93%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 74.32% institutions for Scotts Miracle-Gro Company that are currently holding shares of the company. KAYNE ANDERSON RUDNICK INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC is the top institutional holder at SMG for having 5.2 million shares of worth $338.42 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 9.1579 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 4.54 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 7.9846 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $295.06 million.
