With 0.83 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.08 million shares. During the session, the Specialty Chemicals company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $5.19 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $5.07. The 52-week range on SSL shows that it touched its highest point at $9.33 and its lowest point at $4.28 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $9.12. With its current market cap of 3.23 billion, SSL has annualized dividend of $0.11 while the current yield stands at 2.07%. SSL paid its most recent dividend on 1710374400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1710374400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.34.
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 SSL was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 14.54%, but this was down by -0.97% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -24.93% while six-month performance fell -31.55%. The stock lost -45.71% in the past year, while it has gained 12.28% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SSL yields -3.71 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.39. For the next quarter, that number is 1.08. This implies an EPS growth rate of 94.81% for this year and 20.59% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 642.14 million SSL shares are outstanding with a float of 629.98 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 5.89 million, which was 93.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Simon Baloyi M.Sc. as the firm’s President, CEO & Executive Director, Dr. Sarushen D. Pillay serves as its Executive Vice President of Business Building, Strategy & Technology.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.01815 of SSL’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 SSL 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 SSL analysts setting a high price target of 10.88999 and a low target of 10.88999, the average target price over the next 12 months is 10.88999. Based on these targets, SSL could surge 112.7% to reach the target high and rise by 112.7% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 112.7% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $44.18202 being high and $33.39003 being low. For SSL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $38.912.
