Scotts Miracle-Gro - SMG Stock Forecast, Price & News

7 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Scotts Miracle-Gro in the last twelve months. There are currently 5 hold ratings, 1 buy rating and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" SMG shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in SMG, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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7 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for Scotts Miracle-Gro's shares. Their SMG share price forecasts range from $48.00 to $92.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $75.14 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.5%.
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Scotts Miracle-Gro's stock was trading at $48.59 at the start of the year. Since then, SMG stock has increased by 63.6% and is now trading at $79.50.
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Scotts Miracle-Gro saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,870,000 shares, an increase of 20.9% from the December 31st total of 3,200,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 880,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.4 days. Currently, 9.5% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 2nd 2023.
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The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE:SMG) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February, 1st. The basic materials company reported ($1.02) EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of ($1.36) by $0.34. The basic materials company earned $526.60 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $502.44 million. Scotts Miracle-Gro had a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 55.54% and a negative net margin of 11.64%. Scotts Miracle-Gro's quarterly revenue was down 7.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned ($0.88) earnings per share.

Scotts Miracle-Gro declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, January 23rd. Investors of record on Friday, February 24th will be paid a dividend of $0.66 per share on Friday, March 10th. This represents a $2.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.32%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 23rd.
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Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE:SMG) pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.26%.
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284 employees have rated Scotts Miracle-Gro Chief Executive Officer Jim Hagedorn on Glassdoor.com. Jim Hagedorn has an approval rating of 95% among the company's employees. This puts Jim Hagedorn in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Scotts Miracle-Gro trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SMG."

Scotts Miracle-Gro's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Fisher Asset Management LLC (1.32%), New York State Common Retirement Fund (0.95%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.51%), RWC Asset Management LLP (0.41%), Natixis Advisors L.P. (0.33%) and Olstein Capital Management L.P. (0.31%). Insiders that own company stock include Adam Hanft, David C Evans, Denise Stump, Hagedorn Partnership, LP, Ivan C Smith, James D King, James Hagedorn, John R Vines, Katherine Littlefield Hagedorn, Michael C Lukemire, Peter E Shumlin, Robert Hagedorn, Stephen L Johnson and Susan Hagedorn.
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One share of SMG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $79.50.

Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE:SMG) has a market capitalization of $4.41 billion and generates $3.92 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $-437,500,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($8.21) on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 6,100 workers across the globe.

Scotts Miracle-Gro's mailing address is 14111 SCOTTSLAWN ROAD, MARYSVILLE OH, 43041. The official website for the company is www.scotts.com. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at (937) 644-0011, via email at investor@scotts.com, or via fax at 937-578-5754.