NASDAQ:SLMSLM Stock Price, Forecast & News

SLM's stock was trading at $8.95 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, SLM stock has decreased by 21.9% and is now trading at $6.99. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for SLM in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for SLM.

SLM is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July 22nd 2020. View our earnings forecast for SLM.

SLM Corp (NASDAQ:SLM) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, April, 22nd. The credit services provider reported $0.79 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.88 by $0.09. The credit services provider earned $400.12 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $400.70 million. SLM had a return on equity of 29.22% and a net margin of 29.36%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.34 EPS. View SLM's earnings history.

SLM announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, June 18th. Shareholders of record on Friday, September 4th will be given a dividend of $0.03 per share on Tuesday, September 15th. This represents a $0.12 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.72%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 3rd. View SLM's dividend history.

6 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for SLM's shares. Their forecasts range from $9.00 to $14.00. On average, they anticipate SLM's share price to reach $12.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 71.7% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for SLM.

News coverage about SLM stock has been trending negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of press 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 positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. SLM earned a media sentiment score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the credit services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View the latest news about SLM.

SLM saw a decrease in short interest during the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 38,380,000 shares, a decrease of 7.6% from the June 15th total of 41,530,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,750,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 8.1 days. Currently, 10.3% of the company's shares are sold short. View SLM's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to SLM include American Express (AXP), Capital One Financial (COF), Discover Financial Services (DFS), Credit Acceptance (CACC), FirstCash (FCFS), Green Dot (GDOT), Nelnet (NNI), Pra Group (PRAA), Encore Capital Group (ECPG), World Acceptance (WRLD), EZCORP (EZPW), Regional Management (RM), Nicholas Financial (NICK) and Asta Funding (ASFI). View all competitors.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other SLM investors own include CA (CA), BlackRock (BLK), Endologix (ELGX), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Athabasca Oil (ATH), NIC (EGOV), Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (ANW), Transocean (RIG), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE) and Express (EXPR).

SLM trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "SLM."

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One share of SLM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $6.99.

SLM has a market capitalization of $2.62 billion and generates $2.38 billion in revenue each year. The credit services provider earns $578.28 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.27 on an earnings per share basis. SLM employs 1,900 workers across the globe.

The official website for SLM is www.salliemae.com.

SLM's mailing address is 300 CONTINENTAL DRIVE, NEWARK DE, 19713. The credit services provider can be reached via phone at 302-451-0200 or via email at [email protected]