NYSE:SLCA - U.S. Silica Stock Price, Forecast & News

U.S. Silica trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SLCA."

U.S. Silica announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, February 10th. Investors of record on Friday, March 13th will be paid a dividend of $0.02 per share on Friday, April 3rd. This represents a $0.08 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.34%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 12th. View U.S. Silica's Dividend History.

U.S. Silica Holdings Inc (NYSE:SLCA) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 29th. The mining company reported ($0.17) EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of ($0.04) by $0.13. The mining company earned $361.81 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $392.08 million. The business's quarterly revenue was down 14.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.44 earnings per share. View U.S. Silica's Earnings History.

U.S. Silica is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 25th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for U.S. Silica.

U.S. Silica will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, February 25th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

11 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for U.S. Silica's stock. Their forecasts range from $3.00 to $21.00. On average, they expect U.S. Silica's share price to reach $11.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 84.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for U.S. Silica.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for U.S. Silica in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for U.S. Silica.

Media coverage about SLCA stock has trended somewhat positive on Monday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. 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. U.S. Silica earned a media sentiment score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the mining company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for U.S. Silica.

U.S. Silica saw a decrease in short interest in January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 13,960,000 shares, a decrease of 11.3% from the December 31st total of 15,730,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,030,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 6.9 days. Currently, 20.2% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View U.S. Silica's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to U.S. Silica include Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Compass Minerals International (CMP), Ferroglobe (GSM), General Moly (GMO), United States Antimony (UAMY), Materion (MTRN), Revett Mining Company, Inc. (DE) (RVM), Southern Copper (SCCO) and SunCoke Energy (SXC).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other U.S. Silica investors own include Hi-Crush Partners (HCLP), Micron Technology (MU), NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Intel (INTC), Gilead Sciences (GILD), General Electric (GE), Schlumberger (SLB), Transocean (RIG) and Twitter (TWTR).

U.S. Silica's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Ariel Investments LLC (14.65%), Senvest Management LLC (6.21%), State Street Corp (5.02%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (3.53%), Prescott Group Capital Management L.L.C. (2.53%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.78%). Company insiders that own U.S. Silica stock include Bonnie Cruickshank Lind, Bradford B Casper, Bryan Adair Shinn, Charles W Shaver, Diane K Duren, Donald A Merril, J Michael Stice, Michael L Winkler, Peter Clark Bernard and William Jennings Kacal. View Institutional Ownership Trends for U.S. Silica.

SLCA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Ariel Investments LLC, Prudential Financial Inc., Bank of America Corp DE, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Bank of Montreal Can, Arizona State Retirement System, State of Tennessee Treasury Department and Public Sector Pension Investment Board. View Insider Buying and Selling for U.S. Silica.

SLCA stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Prescott Group Capital Management L.L.C., State Street Corp, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Royce & Associates LP, Senvest Management LLC, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc., Blueshift Asset Management LLC and Clearstead Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have bought U.S. Silica stock in the last two years include Bonnie Cruickshank Lind, Bradford B Casper, Bryan Adair Shinn, Charles W Shaver, Diane K Duren, Donald A Merril, J Michael Stice, Michael L Winkler, Peter Clark Bernard and William Jennings Kacal. View Insider Buying and Selling for U.S. Silica.

Shares of SLCA 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of SLCA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $5.95.