Spotting A Winner: Sempra (NYSE: SRE) Retreats -1.00 And It Still Have Room To Run

Sempra (NYSE:SRE) currently has a daily average trading volume of 5.43M but it saw 4412651 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 45.64B USD, the company’s current market price of $70.06 came falling about -1.00 while comparing to the previous closing price of $70.77. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $95.77 and as low as $64.89. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $69.925 while lowest mark touched by it was $70.72.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Sempra (SRE) gives us an average price of $70.12, while its current price level is -26.85% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 7.97% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $77.47 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $81.56. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.75% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 2.48%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 40.68 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Jefferies downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Hold” from “Buy” on March 03, 2025 while assigning a price target range of $96-$77. Barclays also issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $95 and $72.

Over the week, SRE’s stock price is moving 0.09% up while it is -3.83% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -20.13% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 0.62%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-24, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 1.32 while estimate for next year EPS is 4.65. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $3.24B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $16.6B and seeing the company making $17.31B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $3.9B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Sempra’s total number of outstanding shares is 651.46M with 0.06% of that held by the insiders while 91.49% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 4.47% and return on equity (ROE) at 9.55%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 15.86 while having a 13.95 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.68. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.50 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 3.52. Its return on asset (ROA) is 3.12% on average.