A new trading day began on Friday, with SLM Corp (NASDAQ: SLM) stock price up 0.69% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $31.96. SLM’s price has ranged from $19.39 to $32.65 over the past 52 weeks.
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Annual sales at Financial sector company grew by 5.32% over the past five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 15.88%. With a float of $207.05 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $210.74 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 1710 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 82.56%, operating margin of 42.4%, and the pretax margin is 37.86%.
SLM Corp (SLM) Insider Updates
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Credit Services Industry. The insider ownership of SLM Corp is 1.34%, while institutional ownership is 94.45%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on May 02 ’25, was worth 93,464. In this transaction Director of this company sold 3,000 shares at a rate of $31.15, taking the stock ownership to the 35,195 shares. Before that another transaction happened on May 02 ’25, when Company’s Director proposed sale 3,000 for $31.12, making the entire transaction worth $93,371.
SLM Corp (SLM) Performance Highlights and Predictions
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 15.88% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 12.15% during the next five years compared to 15.53% growth over the previous five years of trading.
SLM Corp (NASDAQ: SLM) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are SLM Corp’s current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.22.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.78, a number that is poised to hit 0.52 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.47 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of SLM Corp (SLM)
SLM Corp (NASDAQ: SLM) saw its 5-day average volume 2.27 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 2.98 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 92.68%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.12.
During the past 100 days, SLM Corp’s (SLM) raw stochastic average was set at 94.74%, which indicates a significant decrease from 95.60% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 22.81% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 38.37% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $28.69, while its 200-day Moving Average is $25.76. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $32.39 in the near term. At $32.59, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $32.94. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $31.84, it is likely to go to the next support level at $31.49. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $31.29.
SLM Corp (NASDAQ: SLM) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 6.75 billion, the company has a total of 209,856K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 2,987 M while annual income is 608,330 K. The company’s previous quarter sales were 862,130 K while its latest quarter income was 304,540 K.
