Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG) recent activity suggests a positive outlook with the last week’s performance of -2.96%

On Tuesday, Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE: SMG) was 1.67% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $66.47. A 52-week range for SMG has been $54.74 – $93.90.

A company in the Basic Materials sector has jumped its sales by 4.07% annually for the last half of the decade. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 49.94%. With a float of $42.87 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $57.50 million.

In an organization with 5300 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 26.75%, operating margin of 8.43%, and the pretax margin is -0.15%.

Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG) Insider and Institutional Ownership

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Scotts Miracle-Gro Company stocks. The insider ownership of Scotts Miracle-Gro Company is 25.41%, while institutional ownership is 72.96%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 07 ’25, was worth 810,544. In this transaction Director of this company sold 12,123 shares at a rate of $66.86, taking the stock ownership to the 13,432,151 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 07 ’25, when Company’s 10% Owner proposed sale 75,000 for $66.86, making the entire transaction worth $5,014,500.

Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG) Latest Financial update

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.22 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 49.94% per share during the next fiscal year.

Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE: SMG) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.55. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.09. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 7.93.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -0.48, a number that is poised to hit 3.97 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 4.27 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG)

Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 0.69 million. That was inferior than the volume of 0.7 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 16.22%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.39.

During the past 100 days, Scotts Miracle-Gro Company’s (SMG) raw stochastic average was set at 10.42%, which indicates a significant decrease from 17.22% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 40.33% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 48.53% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $70.71, while its 200-day Moving Average is $72.36. However, in the short run, Scotts Miracle-Gro Company’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $68.14. Second resistance stands at $68.70. The third major resistance level sits at $69.73. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $66.54, it is likely to go to the next support level at $65.51. The third support level lies at $64.95 if the price breaches the second support level.

Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE: SMG) Key Stats

There are 57,473K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 3.88 billion. As of now, sales total 3,553 M while income totals -34,900 K. Its latest quarter income was 416,800 K while its last quarter net income were -69,500 K.