Investors in cash trouble should check out Sachem Capital Corp (SACH)

With 0.23 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.43 million shares. During the session, the REIT – Mortgage company that operates in wider Real Estate sector, reached to the highest price of $1.22 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $1.19. The 52-week range on SACH shows that it touched its highest point at $4.64 and its lowest point at $1.15 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $2.33. With its current market cap of 54.07 million, SACH has annualized dividend of $0.35 while the current yield stands at 29.41%. SACH paid its most recent dividend on 1722211200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731888000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.66.

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 SACH was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.65%, but this was down by -23.30% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -52.73% while six-month performance fell -52.73%. The stock lost -67.39% in the past year, while it has lost -67.39% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SACH yields -0.18 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.13. For the next quarter, that number is -0.31. This implies an EPS growth rate of -294.53% for this year and 126.03% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 47.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -11.49%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 47.01 million SACH shares are outstanding with a float of 44.72 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 1.94 million, which was 409.9999700000001 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. John L. Villano CPA, CPA as the firm’s Chairman, CEO & President, Mr. Nicholas M. Marcello serves as its Chief Financial Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.22343001 of SACH’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for SACH since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 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 SACH analysts setting a high price target of 2.5 and a low target of 2.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 2.33333. Based on these targets, SACH could surge 110.08% to reach the target high and rise by 68.07% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 96.08% from current levels.

EPS: Estimates vs Actual

It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$0.4291 being high and -$0.54525 being low. For SACH, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.48667. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.07 and the low estimate is $0.02. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.05.