With 0.62 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.56 million shares. During the session, the Medical Care Facilities company that operates in wider Healthcare sector, reached to the highest price of $38.635 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $37.86. The 52-week range on SEM shows that it touched its highest point at $40.50 and its lowest point at $21.56 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $45.40. With its current market cap of 4.99 billion, SEM has annualized dividend of $0.50 while the current yield stands at 1.30%. SEM paid its most recent dividend on 1723593600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731456000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.42.
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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 SEM was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 20.23%, but this was up by 14.55% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 18.02% while six-month performance rose 16.07%. The stock gained 75.72% in the past year, while it has gained 64.13% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SEM yields 2.14 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.25. For the next quarter, that number is 0.28. This implies an EPS growth rate of 8.00% for this year and 4.48% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.92% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 13.25%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 128.37 million SEM shares are outstanding with a float of 102.15 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-15, short shares totaled 2.18 million, which was 168.0 higher than short shares on 1726185600. In addition to Mr. Robert A. Ortenzio as the firm’s Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Mr. David S. Chernow serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.78823 of SEM’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, SEM reported revenue of $1761220000.0 and operating income of $141133000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $224345000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.43.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for SEM since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With SEM analysts setting a high price target of 50.0 and a low target of 40.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 45.4. Based on these targets, SEM could surge 29.63% to reach the target high and rise by 3.71% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 17.71% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.18972 being high and $2.07821 being low. For SEM, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.14917. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.61. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.74 and the low estimate is $0.47. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.66.
