With 0.59 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.42 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Property & Casualty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $54.77 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $53.05. The 52-week range on SKWD shows that it touched its highest point at $55.62 and its lowest point at $33.27 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $57.33. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.62.
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 SKWD was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.56%, but this was up by 3.50% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 9.18% while six-month performance rose 34.15%. The stock gained 46.61% in the past year, while it has gained 8.11% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SKWD yields 2.88 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.89. For the next quarter, that number is 0.78. This implies an EPS growth rate of 11.87% for this year and 13.67% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 40.13 million SKWD shares are outstanding with a float of 35.26 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 0.64 million, which was 159.0 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Andrew Scott Robinson as the firm’s CEO & Chairperson of the Board, Mr. Mark William Haushill CPA serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.0014601 of SKWD’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 SKWD since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 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 SKWD analysts setting a high price target of 63.0 and a low target of 43.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 57.375. Based on these targets, SKWD could surge 15.3% to reach the target high and fall by -21.3% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 5.01% 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 $3.3919 being high and $2.92577 being low. For SKWD, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.04478. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.92 and the low estimate is $0.83. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.86.
