SmartFinancial Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:SMBK)

6 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for SmartFinancial in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings, 1 buy rating and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" SMBK shares.
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6 analysts have issued 12-month price targets for SmartFinancial's stock. Their SMBK share price targets range from $24.00 to $31.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $26.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 19.0% from the stock's current price.
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SmartFinancial's stock was trading at $27.50 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, SMBK stock has decreased by 18.5% and is now trading at $22.41.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, January 22nd 2024.
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SmartFinancial, Inc. (NASDAQ:SMBK) released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, October, 23rd. The bank reported $0.43 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.47 by $0.04. The bank had revenue of $31.70 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $38.87 million. SmartFinancial had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.14% and a net margin of 15.41%.

SmartFinancial declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, October 27th. Investors of record on Monday, November 13th will be given a dividend of $0.08 per share on Monday, November 27th. This represents a $0.32 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.43%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, November 10th.
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SmartFinancial (NASDAQ:SMBK) pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.44%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 15.31%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, SMBK will have a dividend payout ratio of 17.49% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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19 employees have rated SmartFinancial Chief Executive Officer Billy Carroll on Glassdoor.com. Billy Carroll has an approval rating of 95% among the company's employees. This puts Billy Carroll in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other SmartFinancial investors own include Edwards Lifesciences (EW), General Mills (GIS), STAG Industrial (STAG), Trevena (TRVN), Eastman Chemical (EMN), Great Panther Mining (GPL), Louisiana-Pacific (LPX), Pfizer (PFE) and PulteGroup (PHM).

SmartFinancial's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Private Capital Management LLC (3.49%), Northern Trust Corp (0.85%), American Century Companies Inc. (0.70%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.41%), Invesco Ltd. (0.27%) and Panagora Asset Management Inc. (0.21%). Insiders that own company stock include Cathy G Ackermann, David Austin Ogle, Geoffrey Alan Wolpert, John M Presley, Keith Edward Whaley, Rhett D Jordan, Wesley Miller Welborn and William Young Jr Carroll.
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