SM Energy Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:SM)

11 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for SM Energy in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" SM shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in SM, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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11 Wall Street research analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for SM Energy's stock. Their SM share price targets range from $32.00 to $50.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $40.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 13.9% from the stock's current price.
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SM Energy's stock was trading at $34.83 at the beginning of the year. Since then, SM shares have increased by 2.1% and is now trading at $35.57.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 28th 2024.
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SM Energy (NYSE:SM) issued its earnings results on Thursday, November, 2nd. The energy company reported $1.73 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.61 by $0.12. The energy company earned $640.90 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $629.32 million. SM Energy had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 20.90% and a net margin of 34.03%.

SM Energy announced a semi-annual dividend on Thursday, September 28th. Investors of record on Tuesday, October 24th will be given a dividend of $0.15 per share on Monday, November 6th. This represents a yield of 0.8%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, October 23rd.
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SM Energy (NYSE:SM) pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.72%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 8.77%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, SM will have a dividend payout ratio of 8.57% 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 SM Energy (NYSE:SM) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P SmallCap Energy ETF (PSCE), The Acquirers Fund (ZIG), Invesco Energy Exploration & Production ETF (PXE), SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (XOP), First Trust Natural Gas ETF (FCG), Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF (CALF), Invesco S&P SmallCap Quality ETF (XSHQ) and Euclidean Fundamental Value ETF (ECML).

36 employees have rated SM Energy Chief Executive Officer Jay Ottoson on Glassdoor.com. Jay Ottoson has an approval rating of 31% among the company's employees. This puts Jay Ottoson in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other SM Energy investors own include Callon Petroleum (CPE), InterDigital (IDCC), Whiting Petroleum (WLL), Boeing (BA), Bank of Hawaii (BOH), Oasis Petroleum (OAS), Proofpoint (PFPT), Devon Energy (DVN), Matador Resources (MTDR) and Intel (INTC).

SM Energy's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include River Road Asset Management LLC (1.96%), Invesco Ltd. (1.77%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1.59%), American Century Companies Inc. (1.33%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (1.31%) and Morgan Stanley (1.24%). Insiders that own company stock include Anshul Sadana, David J Whitcomb, David W Copeland, Herbert S Vogel, Julio M Quintana, Kenneth J Knott, Mary Ellen Lutey, Patrick A Lytle, Ramiro G Peru, Rose M Robeson and William D Sullivan.
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