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. Stockholders 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 dividend yield of 1.64%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 12th. View U.S. Silica's Dividend History.

U.S. Silica Holdings Inc (NYSE:SLCA) released its earnings results on Tuesday, February, 25th. The mining company reported ($0.53) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of ($0.56) by $0.03. The mining company earned $339.06 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $294.72 million. U.S. Silica had a negative return on equity of 4.98% and a negative net margin of 22.32%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 5.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned ($0.04) earnings per share. View U.S. Silica's Earnings History.

U.S. Silica is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 6th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for U.S. Silica.

10 brokerages have issued twelve-month price objectives for U.S. Silica's stock. Their forecasts range from $3.00 to $21.00. On average, they anticipate U.S. Silica's share price to reach $10.30 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 111.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for U.S. Silica.

10 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 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for U.S. Silica.

Press coverage about SLCA stock has been trending very negative on Friday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of news 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 -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. U.S. Silica earned a coverage optimism score of -3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the mining company a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for U.S. Silica.

U.S. Silica saw a increase in short interest in February. As of February 14th, there was short interest totalling 14,840,000 shares, an increase of 5.7% from the January 30th total of 14,040,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,710,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 8.7 days. Approximately 21.5% of the company's stock are sold short. View U.S. Silica's Current Options Chain.

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

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), Schlumberger (SLB), General Electric (GE), 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, 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, Alliancebernstein L.P. and State of Tennessee Treasury Department. View Insider Buying and Selling for U.S. Silica.

SLCA stock was purchased 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, 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 $4.87.

U.S. Silica has a market capitalization of $358.28 million and generates $1.47 billion in revenue each year. The mining company earns $-200,810,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.64) on an earnings per share basis. U.S. Silica employs 2,812 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About U.S. Silica.

The official website for U.S. Silica is http://www.ussilica.com/.

U.S. Silica's mailing address is 24275 KATY FREEWAY SUITE 600, KATY TX, 77494. The mining company can be reached via phone at 281-258-2170 or via email at [email protected]