With 7.86 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 4.21 million shares. During the session, the Packaging & Containers company that operates in wider Consumer Cyclical sector, reached to the highest price of $55.8 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $52.57. The 52-week range on SW shows that it touched its highest point at $54.32 and its lowest point at $32.56 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $59.33. With its current market cap of 28.88 billion, SW has annualized dividend of $1.88 while the current yield stands at 3.37%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.03.
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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 SW was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 9.24%, but this was up by 25.06% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 27.20% while six-month performance rose 29.32%. The stock gained 40.37% in the past year, while it has gained 36.49% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SW yields 2.41 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.63. For the next quarter, that number is 0.65. This implies an EPS growth rate of -32.06% for this year and 43.72% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 258.45 million SW shares are outstanding with a float of 253.74 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 18.83 million, which was 363.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Anthony Paul J. Smurfit as the firm’s President, Group CEO & Director, Mr. Ken Bowles serves as its Executive VP, Group CFO & Executive Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.85730004 of SW’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, SW reported revenue of $7671000000.0 and operating income of $322000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $359000000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.3.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for SW since 16 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 11 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 4 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 SW analysts setting a high price target of 66.0 and a low target of 47.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 58.875. Based on these targets, SW could surge 18.49% to reach the target high and fall by -15.62% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 5.7% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.59076 being high and $2.45616 being low. For SW, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.5287. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.89 and the low estimate is $0.24. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.68.
