With 1.32 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.82 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Diversified company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $13.82 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $13.66. The 52-week range on SMFG shows that it touched its highest point at $16.74 and its lowest point at $10.74 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $14.91. With its current market cap of 88.43 billion, SMFG has annualized dividend of $0.24 while the current yield stands at 1.75%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.45.
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 SMFG was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.19%, but this was down by -15.14% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -5.87% while six-month performance rose 7.99%. The stock gained 21.93% in the past year, while it has lost -4.83% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SMFG yields 1.31 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.18. For the next quarter, that number is 0.13. This implies an EPS growth rate of 38.07% for this year and 9.98% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 18.46% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 1.34%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 6.48 billion SMFG shares are outstanding with a float of 6.41 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 3.26 million, which was 5.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Toru Nakashima as the firm’s President, Group CEO, Representative Corporate Executive Officer & Director, Mr. Fumihiko Ito serves as its Senior Managing Corporate Executive Officer, Group CFO, Group CSO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.01613 of SMFG’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 SMFG since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 1 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With SMFG analysts setting a high price target of 16.86043 and a low target of 16.86043, the average target price over the next 12 months is 16.86043. Based on these targets, SMFG could surge 22.27% to reach the target high and rise by 22.27% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 22.27% 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 $138.72167 being high and $100.1626 being low. For SMFG, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $118.96755. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0 and the low estimate is $0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.
