With 0.55 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.41 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Property & Casualty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $49.38 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $47.46. The 52-week range on SKWD shows that it touched its highest point at $65.05 and its lowest point at $34.10 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $59.89. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.64.
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 down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.75%, but this was down by -9.96% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -16.43% while six-month performance rose 2.67%. The stock lost -2.67% in the past year, while it has gained 27.47% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SKWD yields 3.17 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.02. For the next quarter, that number is 0.84. This implies an EPS growth rate of 16.22% for this year and 13.09% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 40.49 million SKWD shares are outstanding with a float of 35.43 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-07-15, short shares totaled 0.85 million, which was 210.0 higher than short shares on 1749772800. 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.
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 70.0 and a low target of 43.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 60.77778. Based on these targets, SKWD could surge 42.31% to reach the target high and fall by -12.58% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 23.56% 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. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.77. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.02 and the low estimate is $0.87. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.95.
