NASDAQ:SLM - SLM Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

SLM Corp (NASDAQ:SLM) released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, October, 22nd. The credit services provider reported $0.23 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.24 by $0.01. The credit services provider earned $356.63 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $350.10 million. SLM had a net margin of 22.81% and a return on equity of 18.84%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.17 EPS. View SLM's Earnings History.

SLM is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 23rd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for SLM.

SLM will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, January 24th at 8:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 8773565689.

SLM issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Monday, October, 22nd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.02-1.03 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $1.02. SLM also updated its FY 2018 guidance to $1.02-1.03 EPS.

8 analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for SLM's stock. Their predictions range from $13.00 to $15.00. On average, they expect SLM's share price to reach $13.5313 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 44.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for SLM.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for SLM in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for SLM.

News articles about SLM stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. SLM earned a media sentiment score of 0.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the credit services provider a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days.

SLM saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 27,591,050 shares, an increase of 5.5% from the December 14th total of 26,151,320 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 3,969,698 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 7.0 days. Approximately 6.4% of the company's stock are short sold. View SLM's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to SLM include Credit Acceptance (CACC), Santander Consumer USA (SC), OneMain (OMF), Nelnet (NNI), World Acceptance (WRLD), PROVIDENT FINL/S (FPLPY), Enova International (ENVA), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), Regional Management (RM), Atlanticus (ATLC), Mr. Amazing Loans (MRAL) and IEG (IEGH).

SLM's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.13%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.03%), Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.03%), Fox Run Management L.L.C. (0.01%) and Virtu Financial LLC (0.00%). Company insiders that own SLM stock include Earl A Goode, Frank C Puleo, Jed H Pitcher, Jeffrey Dale, Jonathan Boyles, Laurent Charles Lutz, Nicolas Jafarieh, Paul F Thome, Raymond J Quinlan and Steven Mcgarry. View Institutional Ownership Trends for SLM.

SLM stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Louisiana State Employees Retirement System. Company insiders that have sold SLM company stock in the last year include Earl A Goode, Frank C Puleo, Jed H Pitcher, Jeffrey Dale, Jonathan Boyles, Laurent Charles Lutz, Nicolas Jafarieh, Paul F Thome and Steven Mcgarry. View Insider Buying and Selling for SLM.

SLM stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Fox Run Management L.L.C., Virtu Financial LLC and Retirement Systems of Alabama. View Insider Buying and Selling for SLM.

Shares of SLM 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of SLM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $9.35.

SLM has a market capitalization of $4.03 billion and generates $1.43 billion in revenue each year. The credit services provider earns $288.93 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.71 on an earnings per share basis. SLM employs 1,500 workers across the globe.

The official website for SLM is http://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]