Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE:SMG) does about 980.45K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 798083 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 4.01B USD. Its current market price is $70.55, marking a decrease of -0.23% compared to the previous close of $70.71. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $82.11 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $43.67. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $110 and a low of $59.
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG) has a 20-day trading average at $68.50 and the current price is -14.08% off the 52-week high compared with 61.55% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $66.75 and its 200-day simple moving average is $63.11. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 6.69%, which decreases to 4.37% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 54.01 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $78.67, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 10.32% over the period. The median price target is 4.01% away from the current levels at $73.5.
2 analysts have rated it as a buy and 2 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Moderate Buy the stock.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on April 05, 2024 when Truist downgraded the stock to “Hold” and issued a price target of between $65 and $75. Stifel downgraded its price target at $78-$72.
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG) stock is up 0.44% over the week and 13.44% over the past month. Its price is 10.67% year-to-date and 26.89% over the past year.
The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -1.95 and 2.7 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $408.08M, which analysts say will come at $3.54B for the current fiscal year and next year at $3.61B. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $399.78M.
Its 12-month price target is $73.5. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 10.32 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $59, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $110.
Outstanding shares total 56.50M with insiders holding 25.19% of the shares and institutional holders owning 80.58% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -11.32% and return on equity of -47.64%. The forward price to earnings ratio is 18.70. The beta has a value of 1.74. Price to sales ratio is 1.14.
