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

U.S. Silica's stock was trading at $1.44 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, SLCA stock has increased by 7.6% and is now trading at $1.55. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for U.S. Silica in the last year. There are currently 5 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for U.S. Silica.

U.S. Silica is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 6th 2020. View our earnings forecast for U.S. Silica.

U.S. Silica Holdings Inc (NYSE:SLCA) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February, 25th. The mining company reported ($0.53) EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.56) by $0.03. The mining company earned $339.06 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates 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 revenue for the quarter was down 5.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned ($0.04) earnings per share. View U.S. Silica's earnings history.

U.S. Silica declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, February 10th. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 13th will be given a dividend of $0.02 per share on Friday, April 3rd. This represents a $0.08 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 5.16%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 12th. View U.S. Silica's dividend history.

13 equities research analysts have issued 1-year target prices for U.S. Silica's shares. Their forecasts range from $2.00 to $21.00. On average, they expect U.S. Silica's share price to reach $10.20 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 558.1% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for U.S. Silica.

Press coverage about SLCA stock has been trending very negative this week, InfoTrie reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. U.S. Silica earned a media sentiment score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the mining company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutU.S. Silica.

U.S. Silica saw a increase in short interest during the month of March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 14,306,300 shares, an increase of 29.5% from the February 27th total of 11,050,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,980,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 7.2 days. Approximately 20.9% 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), United States Antimony (UAMY), General Moly (GMO) and Revett Mining Company, Inc. (DE) (RVM).

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

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One share of SLCA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $1.55.

U.S. Silica has a market capitalization of $114.32 million and generates $1.47 billion in revenue each year. The mining company earns $-329,080,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.64) on an earnings per share basis. U.S. Silica employs 2,177 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]