Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE: SMG) on Monday, plunged -4.52% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $58.57. Within the past 52 weeks, SMG’s price has moved between $58.17 and $93.90.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Basic Materials Sector giant was 4.07%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 49.91%. With a float of $43.60 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $57.50 million.
Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 5300 employees. 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 Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Agricultural Inputs industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Scotts Miracle-Gro Company is 24.14%, while institutional ownership is 74.28%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 13 ’25, was worth 4,194,192. In this transaction Director of this company sold 62,877 shares at a rate of $66.70, taking the stock ownership to the 13,369,274 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 12 ’25, when Company’s Director sold 1,513 for $65.86, making the entire transaction worth $99,646. This insider now owns 13,039 shares in total.
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG) Earnings and Forecasts
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 49.91% per share during the next fiscal year.
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE: SMG) Trading Performance Indicators
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.55 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.90. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 6.56.
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)
Looking closely at Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE: SMG), its last 5-days average volume was 1.06 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 0.78 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 2.77%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.16.
During the past 100 days, Scotts Miracle-Gro Company’s (SMG) raw stochastic average was set at 0.63%, which indicates a significant decrease from 1.90% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 28.69% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 47.61% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $67.28, while its 200-day Moving Average is $71.92. However, in the short run, Scotts Miracle-Gro Company’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $58.83. Second resistance stands at $61.73. The third major resistance level sits at $63.31. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $54.35, it is likely to go to the next support level at $52.77. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $49.87.
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE: SMG) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 3.21 billion based on 57,473K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 3,553 M and income totals -34,900 K. The company made 416,800 K in profit during its latest quarter, and -69,500 K in sales during its previous quarter.
