Predicting Future Price Moves In SunCoke Energy Inc (SXC)

SunCoke Energy Inc (NYSE:SXC) does about 859.01K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1798128 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 885.56M USD. Its current market price is $10.62, marking a decrease of -0.84% compared to the previous close of $10.71. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $12.82 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $7.47.

SunCoke Energy Inc (SXC) has a 20-day trading average at $11.74 and the current price is -17.16% off the 52-week high compared with 42.17% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $11.23 and its 200-day simple moving average is $10.14. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.02%, which increases to 2.58% 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 26.53 to suggest the stock is oversold.

The consensus objective for the share price is $12.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 11.5% over the period.

FactSet Research has provided data showing that 2 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 1 advise that it is a overweight. 1 analysts have rated it as a buy and 0 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Strong 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 August 03, 2023 when B. Riley Securities downgraded the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of between $12 and $11.

The current price level is -9.51%, -5.46%, and 4.72% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the SXC price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. SunCoke Energy Inc (SXC) stock is down -3.37% over the week and -13.66% over the past month. Its price is -1.12% year-to-date and -4.58% over the past year.

The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0.24 and 1.09 for whole year. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $373.5M.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 11.5 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 84.09M with insiders holding 0.98% of the shares and institutional holders owning 92.02% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 7.48% and return on equity of 13.58%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 10.53 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 14.07. The beta has a value of 1.04. Price to book ratio is 1.36 and price to sales ratio is 0.45.