U.S. Silica (SLCA) Stock Price, News & Analysis

3 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for U.S. Silica in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" SLCA shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in SLCA, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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3 brokers have issued twelve-month target prices for U.S. Silica's shares. Their SLCA share price targets range from $15.00 to $15.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $15.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 36.6% from the stock's current price.
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U.S. Silica's stock was trading at $12.50 at the start of the year. Since then, SLCA stock has decreased by 12.2% and is now trading at $10.98.
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U.S. Silica saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,730,000 shares, an increase of 20.1% from the October 31st total of 3,940,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 735,900 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 6.4 days. Approximately 6.4% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, February 23rd 2024.
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U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:SLCA) announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, November, 3rd. The mining company reported $0.38 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.39 by $0.01. The mining company had revenue of $367 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $380.20 million. U.S. Silica had a net margin of 9.17% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 21.03%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 12.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.43 earnings per share.

ETFs with the largest weight of U.S. Silica (NYSE:SLCA) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P SmallCap Energy ETF (PSCE), SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Equipment & Services ETF (XES), VanEck Oil Services ETF (OIH) and iShares U.S. Oil Equipment & Services ETF (IEZ).Direxion Daily Oil Services Bull 2X Shares (ONG).

32 employees have rated U.S. Silica Chief Executive Officer Bryan Shinn on Glassdoor.com. Bryan Shinn has an approval rating of 46% among the company's employees. This puts Bryan Shinn in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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U.S. Silica's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Van ECK Associates Corp (2.07%), Morgan Stanley (2.04%), Boston Partners (1.84%), Invesco Ltd. (1.48%), American Century Companies Inc. (1.35%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.07%). Insiders that own company stock include Bryan Adair Shinn, Charles W Shaver, Diane K Duren, Donald A Merril, James Derek Ussery, Michael L Winkler, Stacy Russell, William Jennings Kacal and Zach Carusona.
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