LON:SMDS - DS Smith Share Price, Forecast & News Adding Choose a watchlist: Adding You have already added five stocks to your watchlist. Upgrade to MarketBeat Daily Premium to add more stocks to your watchlist. Adding DS Smith plc Please log in to your account or sign up in order to add this asset to your watchlist. Log In and Add GBX 314.20 -21.20 (-6.32 %) (As of 02/28/2020 04:00 PM ET) Add Compare Today's Range 310.10Now: GBX 314.20▼ 324.9050-Day Range 314.20MA: GBX 357.68▼ 37852-Week Range 306.30Now: GBX 314.20▼ 397.80Volume11.58 million shsAverage Volume3.86 million shsMarket Capitalization£4.31 billionP/E Ratio13.66Dividend Yield4.83%BetaN/A ProfileAnalyst RatingsAdvanced ChartDividendEarningsInsider TradesHeadlines Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on StocktwitsPrint this articleShare by Email DS Smith Plc designs and manufactures corrugated packaging and plastic packaging for consumer goods. It provides transit and transport, consumer, retail and shelf ready, online and e-retail, industrial, hazardous, multi-material, inserts and cushioning, and electrostatic discharge packaging products, as well as wrap arounds, trays, and bag-in-boxes; displays and promotional packaging products; corrugated pallets; Sheetfeeding products; packaging machine systems; and Sizzlepak, a stuffing material made of paper, folded in a zigzag shape, and cut into narrow strips, as well as provides packaging consultancy services. Read More… Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock Exchange LON Industry Packaging & Containers Sub-IndustryN/A SectorConsumer Cyclical Current SymbolLON:SMDS Previous Symbol CUSIPN/A CIKN/A Webhttp://www.dssmith.com/ Phone+44-20-77561800Debt Debt-to-Equity Ratio92.09 Current Ratio0.85 Quick Ratio0.51Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E Ratio13.66 Forward P/E Ratio0.08 P/E GrowthN/A Sales & Book Value Annual Sales£6.29 billion Price / Sales0.69 Cash FlowGBX 30.36 per share Price / Cash Flow10.35 Book ValueGBX 232.40 per share Price / Book1.35Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)N/A Net IncomeN/A Net MarginsN/A Return on EquityN/A Return on AssetsN/AMiscellaneous Employees28,500 Outstanding Shares1,372,400,000Market Cap£4.31 billion Next Earnings DateN/A OptionableNot Optionable Receive SMDS News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for SMDS and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. LSE:SMDS Rates by TradingView DS Smith (LON:SMDS) Frequently Asked Questions What is DS Smith's stock symbol? DS Smith trades on the London Stock Exchange (LON) under the ticker symbol "SMDS." How often does DS Smith pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for DS Smith? DS Smith announced a dividend on Saturday, December 5th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, April 9th will be paid a dividend of GBX 5.40 per share on Friday, May 1st. This represents a yield of 1.41%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, April 9th. The official announcement can be viewed at this link. View DS Smith's Dividend History. How were DS Smith's earnings last quarter? DS Smith plc (LON:SMDS) announced its earnings results on Monday, June, 18th. The company reported $35.50 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $34.80 by $0.70. View DS Smith's Earnings History. What price target have analysts set for SMDS? 8 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for DS Smith's shares. Their forecasts range from GBX 300 to GBX 440. On average, they anticipate DS Smith's share price to reach GBX 389.38 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 23.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for DS Smith. What is the consensus analysts' recommendation for DS Smith? 8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for DS Smith in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for DS Smith. Has DS Smith been receiving favorable news coverage? News headlines about SMDS stock have trended very negative recently, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. DS Smith earned a coverage optimism score of -4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the company a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for DS Smith. Who are some of DS Smith's key competitors? Some companies that are related to DS Smith include CCL Industries (CCL.B), Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG), Orora (ORA), RPC Group (RPC), Winpak (WPK), Intertape Polymer Group (ITP), Pact Group (PGH), CCL Industries (CCL.A), Richards Packaging Income Fund (RPI.UN), IPL Plastics (IPLP), Macfarlane Group (MACF), Imaflex (IFX), RM2 International (RM2), Symphony Environmental Technologies (SYM) and Secos Group (SES). What other stocks do shareholders of DS Smith own? Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other DS Smith investors own include Vodafone Group (VOD), Cobham (COB), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Imperial Brands (IMB), Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS), Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA), EQGP (EQGP), Johnson Matthey (JMAT), Ashtead Group (AHT) and Aviva (AV). Who are DS Smith's key executives? DS Smith's management team includes the folowing people: Mr. Miles W. Roberts, Group Chief Exec. & Exec. Director (Age 55)Mr. Adrian R. T. Marsh, Group Fin. Director & Exec. Director (Age 52)Rachel Stevens, Investor Relations DirectorMr. Iain Simm, Group Gen. Counsel & Company Sec.Mr. Hugo Fisher, Group Communications Director How do I buy shares of DS Smith? Shares of SMDS and other U.K. stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSX). Some U.K. companies can be purchased through major U.S. brokerages in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are placeholder equities held in a trust by a bank that represent shares of a foreign stock. What is DS Smith's stock price today? One share of SMDS stock can currently be purchased for approximately GBX 314.20. How big of a company is DS Smith? DS Smith has a market capitalization of £4.31 billion and generates £6.29 billion in revenue each year. DS Smith employs 28,500 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About DS Smith. What is DS Smith's official website? The official website for DS Smith is http://www.dssmith.com/. How can I contact DS Smith? DS Smith's mailing address is 7th Fl, Regents Place, 350 Euston Road, LONDON, NW1 3AX, United Kingdom. The company can be reached via phone at +44-20-77561800. MarketBeat Community Rating for DS Smith (LON SMDS)Community Ranking: 2.5 out of 5 ( )Outperform Votes: 625 (Vote Outperform)Underperform Votes: 636 (Vote Underperform)Total Votes: 1,261MarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about DS Smith and other stocks. Vote "Outperform" if you believe SMDS will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote "Underperform" if you believe SMDS will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. You may vote once every thirty days. This page was last updated on 2/29/2020 by MarketBeat.com StaffFeatured Article: Why do commodities matter?
