With 1.33 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.46 million shares. During the session, the Credit Services company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $23.15 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $22.685. The 52-week range on SLM shows that it touched its highest point at $23.95 and its lowest point at $12.26 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $26.67. With its current market cap of 4.96 billion, SLM has annualized dividend of $0.44 while the current yield stands at 1.93%. SLM paid its most recent dividend on 1725494400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1733356800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.17.
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Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of SLM was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.02%, but this was up by 5.90% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -0.87% while six-month performance rose 3.17%. The stock gained 74.71% in the past year, while it has gained 19.25% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SLM yields 3.22 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.99. For the next quarter, that number is 0.49. This implies an EPS growth rate of 15.28% for this year and 7.58% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -1.06% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 17.55%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 220.34 million SLM shares are outstanding with a float of 214.11 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-09-30, short shares totaled 7.42 million, which was 340.99999999999994 higher than short shares on 1724976000. In addition to Mr. Jonathan W. Witter as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Peter M. Graham serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.99323 of SLM’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.