SLM Corp. (NASDAQ: SLM) is 13.70% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $12.26 and a high of $23.95 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The SLM stock was last observed hovering at around $21.58 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.16%.
Currently trading at $21.74, the stock is 3.03% and 0.95% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.05 million and changing 0.74% at the moment leaves the stock 6.21% off its SMA200. SLM registered 54.51% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 5.33%.
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The stock witnessed a 2.60% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 6.00%, and is 8.43% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.67% over the week and 2.48% over the month.
SLM Corp. (SLM) has around 1740 employees, a market worth around $4.73B and $3.07B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 6.76 and Fwd P/E is 7.37. Profit margin for the company is 23.46%. Distance from 52-week low is 77.32% and -9.23% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (9.38%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 17.12% this year
422.0 institutions hold shares in SLM Corp. (SLM), with institutional investors hold 100.35% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 220.34M, and float is at 213.87M with Short Float at 3.30%. Institutions hold 99.30% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 31.62 million shares valued at $657.42 million. The investor’s holdings represent 14.3465 of the SLM Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is IMPACTIVE CAPITAL LP with 19.7 million shares valued at $409.51 million to account for 8.9365 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BLACKROCK INC. which holds 19.19 million shares representing 8.7072 and valued at over $399.0 million, while FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP holds 6.1181 of the shares totaling 13.49 million with a market value of $280.36 million.
SLM Corp. (SLM) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Strong Robert S., the company’s Director. SEC filings show that Strong Robert S. sold 4,500 shares of the company’s common stock on Sep 03 ’24 at a price of $21.80 per share for a total of $98108.0. Following the sale, the insider now owns 96593.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Aug 01 ’24, Strong Robert S. (Director) disposed off 4,500 shares at an average price of $22.70 for $0.1 million. The insider now directly holds 101,093 shares of SLM Corp. (SLM).
