With 0.89 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.19 million shares. During the session, the Marine Shipping company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $8.569 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $8.365. The 52-week range on SFL shows that it touched its highest point at $14.62 and its lowest point at $8.06 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $11.80. With its current market cap of 1.24 billion, SFL has annualized dividend of $1.08 while the current yield stands at 12.72%. SFL paid its most recent dividend on 1734048000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741737600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.61.
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 SFL was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.69%, but this was down by -11.01% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -13.98% while six-month performance fell -23.51%. The stock lost -34.29% in the past year, while it has lost -16.93% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SFL yields 1.01 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.35. For the next quarter, that number is -0.02. This implies an EPS growth rate of -102.22% for this year and 1622.92% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 145.71 million SFL shares are outstanding with a float of 96.31 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 2.79 million, which was 208.0 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. Ole Bjarte Hjertaker as the firm’s CEO of SFL Management AS & Director, Mr. Aksel C. Olesen serves as its Chief Financial Officer of SFL Management AS.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.32318002 of SFL’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, SFL reported revenue of $224952000.0 and operating income of $58570000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $125983000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for SFL since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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 SFL analysts setting a high price target of 14.0 and a low target of 10.8, the average target price over the next 12 months is 11.8. Based on these targets, SFL could surge 64.9% to reach the target high and rise by 27.21% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 38.99% 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 $1.08835 being high and $0.92164 being low. For SFL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.03574.
