Smart Global Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:SGH)

Smart Global trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "SGH."

Smart Global Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:SGH) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 3rd. The company reported $0.50 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.53 by $0.03. The company earned $278.40 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $285.05 million. Smart Global had a return on equity of 25.19% and a net margin of 4.24%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 25.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $1.72 earnings per share. View Smart Global's Earnings History.

Smart Global is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 14th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Smart Global.

Smart Global updated its first quarter earnings guidance on Thursday, October, 3rd. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.68-0.78 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $0.85. The company issued revenue guidance of $275-285 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $309.33 million.

5 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Smart Global's shares. Their predictions range from $30.00 to $50.00. On average, they anticipate Smart Global's stock price to reach $37.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 29.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Smart Global.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Smart Global in the last year. There are currently 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Smart Global.

News stories about SGH stock have trended very negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Smart Global earned a news sentiment score of -3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Smart Global.

Smart Global saw a increase in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 2,050,000 shares, an increase of 7.9% from the August 30th total of 1,900,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 406,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.0 days. Currently, 16.2% of the company's stock are short sold. View Smart Global's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Smart Global investors own include Micron Technology (MU), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Intel (INTC), Applied Materials (AMAT), Lam Research (LRCX), Alibaba Group (BABA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Verizon Communications (VZ), Square (SQ) and Exelixis (EXEL).

(SGH) raised $74 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Wednesday, May 24th 2017. The company issued 5,300,000 shares at $13.00-$15.00 per share. Barclays, Deutsche Bank Securities, Jefferies and Stifel acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Needham & Company and Roth Capital Partners were co-managers.

Smart Global's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.04%). Company insiders that own Smart Global stock include Alan Marten, Bruce M Goldberg, Iain Mackenzie, Jack A Pacheco, Kiwan Kim, Lake Sumeru (Offshore) Silver, Mukesh Patel, Sandeep Nayyar and Stephen C Dow. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Smart Global.

SGH stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue. View Insider Buying and Selling for Smart Global.

Shares of SGH can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of SGH stock can currently be purchased for approximately $28.64.

Smart Global has a market capitalization of $661.04 million and generates $1.21 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $51.33 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.56 on an earnings per share basis. Smart Global employs 1,538 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Smart Global.

The official website for Smart Global is http://www.smartm.com/.

Smart Global's mailing address is 39870 EUREKA DRIVE, NEWARK CA, 94560. The company can be reached via phone at 510-623-1231 or via email at [email protected]