Reflections On The Past For Investors Today: Sandridge Energy Inc (NYSE: SD)

Sandridge Energy Inc (NYSE:SD) does about 319.22K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 173942 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 405.02M USD. Its current market price is $10.69, marking an increase of 1.81% compared to the previous close of $10.50. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $15.31 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $10.31.

Sandridge Energy Inc (SD) has a 20-day trading average at $11.15 and the current price is -30.18% off the 52-week high compared with 3.69% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $11.38 and its 200-day simple moving average is $12.84. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 3.46%, which decreases to 2.78% 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 37.46 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $21.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 49.1% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on June 21, 2017 when Seaport Global Securities downgraded the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of between $25 and $17.

The current price level is -4.14%, -6.07%, and -16.73% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the SD price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Sandridge Energy Inc (SD) stock is down -2.55% over the week and -11.73% over the past month. Its price is -12.80% year-to-date and -15.16% over the past year.

The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0.54 and 1.12 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $48.76M, which analysts say will come at $136.59M for the current fiscal year and next year at $201.38M. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $50.27M.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 49.1 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 37.20M with insiders holding 2.02% of the shares and institutional holders owning 70.42% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 10.56% and return on equity of 10.30%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 8.42 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 5.11. The beta has a value of 2.12. Price to book ratio is 0.89 and price to sales ratio is 3.37.