SJW Group (SJW) is expecting 17.48% growth in the next quarter: What can investors do to maximize their returns?

On Friday, SJW Group (NASDAQ: SJW) was 3.47% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $51.63. A 52-week range for SJW has been $44.91 – $62.18.

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Utilities Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 12.74% over the last five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 3.33%. With a float of $31.28 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $33.63 million.

The firm has a total of 822 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 62.08%, operating margin of 22.78%, and the pretax margin is 13.75%.

SJW Group (SJW) Insider Activity

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward SJW Group stocks. The insider ownership of SJW Group is 8.41%, while institutional ownership is 78.18%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Aug 22 ’24, was worth 6,644. In this transaction Chief Operating Officer of this company sold 115 shares at a rate of $57.77, taking the stock ownership to the 8,333 shares. Before that another transaction happened on May 07 ’24, when Company’s President of CTWS sold 1,400 for $55.62, making the entire transaction worth $77,868. This insider now owns 3,300 shares in total.

SJW Group (SJW) Earnings and Forecasts

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.71 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 3.33% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 5.15% during the next five years compared to 28.46% growth over the previous five years of trading.

SJW Group (NASDAQ: SJW) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what SJW Group (SJW) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.73. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.44.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.86, a number that is poised to hit 0.36 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.65 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of SJW Group (SJW)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [SJW Group, SJW], we can find that recorded value of 0.45 million was better than the volume posted last year of 0.29 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 39.63%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.83.

During the past 100 days, SJW Group’s (SJW) raw stochastic average was set at 70.51%, which indicates a significant increase from 61.44% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 30.84% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 28.04% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $52.85, while its 200-day Moving Average is $54.88. Now, the first resistance to watch is $54.48. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $55.53. The third major resistance level sits at $57.17. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $51.79, it is likely to go to the next support level at $50.15. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $49.10.

SJW Group (NASDAQ: SJW) Key Stats

There are 34,147K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 1.82 billion. As of now, sales total 748,440 K while income totals 93,970 K. Its latest quarter income was 197,820 K while its last quarter net income were 22,920 K.