With 1.12 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.7 million shares. The 52-week range on SEI shows that it touched its highest point at $39.03 and its lowest point at $8.09 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $44.11. With its current market cap of 1.87 billion, SEI has annualized dividend of $0.48 while the current yield stands at 1.73%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.11.
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 SEI was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.29%, but this was up by 20.57% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -12.35% while six-month performance rose 19.22%. The stock gained 213.36% in the past year, while it has lost -3.86% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SEI yields 0.49 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.62. For the next quarter, that number is 0.23. This implies an EPS growth rate of 68.36% for this year and 92.22% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 112.18% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -21.42%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 38.44 million SEI shares are outstanding with a float of 27.61 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.
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 $0.61198 being high and $0.55881 being low. For SEI, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.58126. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.52 and the low estimate is $0.16. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.29.
