As on Wednesday, Service Corp. International (NYSE: SCI) started slowly as it slid -2.42% to $70.26, before settling in for the price of $72.00 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, SCI posted a 52-week range of $52.89-$75.97.
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The Consumer Cyclical Sector giants’ yearly sales growth during the last 5-year period was 5.38%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 8.08%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 5.18%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $146.32 million, simultaneously with a float of $141.87 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $10.26 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $71.71, while the 200-day Moving Average is $64.87.
Service Corp. International (SCI) Ownership Facts and Figures
Another important factor to analyze is how key investors are playing towards the stock of the Personal Services industry. Service Corp. International’s current insider ownership accounts for 2.85%, in contrast to 87.46% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Mar 13 ’24, this organization’s Director sold 8,950 shares at the rate of 75.39, making the entire transaction reach 674,702 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 60,887. Preceding that transaction, on Mar 07 ’24, Company’s Sr.VP& Chief Operating Officer sold 50,000 for 75.07, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 3,753,449. This particular insider is now the holder of 289,400 in total.
Service Corp. International (SCI) Earnings and Revenue Records
If we go through the results of last quarter, which was made public on 12/30/2023, the company posted $0.93 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, besting the agreed prediction (set at $0.91) by $0.02. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.88 per share during the current fiscal year.
Service Corp. International’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 5.18% and is forecasted to reach 4.03 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 12.00% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 8.08% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Service Corp. International (NYSE: SCI) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Service Corp. International (SCI). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.62. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 1.29. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $19.92, and its Beta score is 0.81. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 2.50. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 20.23.
In the same vein, SCI’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 3.53, a figure that is expected to reach 0.85 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 4.03 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Service Corp. International (SCI)
Through scrutinizing the latest numbers posted by the [Service Corp. International, SCI], it can be observed that its last 5-days Average volume of 0.6 million was lower the volume of 0.84 million, it posted the year before. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 17.38% While, its Average True Range was 1.30.
Raw Stochastic average of Service Corp. International (SCI) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 65.25%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 5.65% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 15.08% that was lower than 18.78% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
