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

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 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12 month target prices for U.S. Silica's shares. Their SLCA share price targets range from $15.00 to $15.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $15.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 35.9% from the stock's current price.
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U.S. Silica's stock was trading at $12.50 at the beginning of the year. Since then, SLCA stock has decreased by 11.7% and is now trading at $11.04.
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U.S. Silica saw a increase in short interest in 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 daily volume of 735,900 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 6.4 days. Currently, 6.4% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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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) issued its quarterly earnings data on Friday, November, 3rd. The mining company reported $0.38 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.39 by $0.01. The mining company earned $367 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $380.20 million. U.S. Silica had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 21.03% and a net margin of 9.17%. The firm's revenue was down 12.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.43 earnings per share.

U.S. Silica (NYSE:SLCA) pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.00%. The dividend payout ratio is 4.21%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, SLCA will have a dividend payout ratio of 4.94% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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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.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other U.S. Silica investors own include (HCLP) (HCLP), NVIDIA (NVDA), Micron Technology (MU), Alibaba Group (BABA), Intel (INTC), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Gilead Sciences (GILD), AT&T (T), Delta Air Lines (DAL) and Schlumberger (SLB).

U.S. Silica's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors 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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