With 6.52 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 11.12 million shares. During the session, the Specialty Industrial Machinery company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $18.16 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $17.345. The 52-week range on SMR shows that it touched its highest point at $32.30 and its lowest point at $3.79 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $21.04. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.54.
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 SMR was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 19.97%, but this was down by -28.77% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -21.43% while six-month performance rose 103.94%. The stock gained 148.59% in the past year, while it has lost -1.84% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SMR yields -1.47 with Next year EPS estimates of -0.38. For the next quarter, that number is -0.13. This implies an EPS growth rate of 81.08% for this year and -34.81% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 39.38% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -34.24%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 122.84 million SMR shares are outstanding with a float of 111.06 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 22.42 million, which was 1748.9999999999998 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. John L. Hopkins as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Ramsey Hamady serves as its Chief Financial Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.5258 of SMR’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 2024-12-31, SMR reported revenue of $34224000.0 and operating income of -$11855000.0. Over the past year, revenue came in at $1.61M while operating income stood at -$166.12M. It generated -$74975000.0 net income for the quarter, which came to -$99.53M over the last twelve months. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $158598000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan. EBITDA for the full year was -$95.37M.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for SMR 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 SMR analysts setting a high price target of 29.0 and a low target of 17.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 24.46. Based on these targets, SMR could surge 64.77% to reach the target high and fall by -3.41% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 38.98% 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 -$0.3734 being high and -$1.28126 being low. For SMR, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.7263. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is -$0.17 and the low estimate is -$0.17. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.17.
