Scotts Miracle-Gro Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:SMG)

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

Scotts Miracle-Gro declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 1st. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, August 27th will be paid a dividend of $0.58 per share on Tuesday, September 10th. This represents a $2.32 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.26%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, August 26th. This is a positive change from Scotts Miracle-Gro's previous quarterly dividend of $0.55. View Scotts Miracle-Gro's Dividend History.

Scotts Miracle-Gro Co (NYSE:SMG) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, July, 31st. The basic materials company reported $3.11 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $2.74 by $0.37. The basic materials company earned $1.17 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.07 billion. Scotts Miracle-Gro had a net margin of 12.02% and a return on equity of 51.15%. Scotts Miracle-Gro's revenue for the quarter was up 17.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $2.67 earnings per share. View Scotts Miracle-Gro's Earnings History.

Scotts Miracle-Gro is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 6th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Scotts Miracle-Gro.

Scotts Miracle-Gro issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, July, 31st. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $4.35-4.50 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $4.35. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.09-3.12 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.02 billion.

4 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Scotts Miracle-Gro's stock. Their forecasts range from $70.00 to $120.00. On average, they anticipate Scotts Miracle-Gro's stock price to reach $93.78 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 8.7%. View Analyst Price Targets for Scotts Miracle-Gro.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Scotts Miracle-Gro in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Scotts Miracle-Gro.

News articles about SMG stock have been trending negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Scotts Miracle-Gro earned a news impact score of -2.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the basic materials company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Scotts Miracle-Gro.

Scotts Miracle-Gro saw a increase in short interest in the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 3,740,000 shares, an increase of 5.9% from the August 30th total of 3,530,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 513,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 7.3 days. Currently, 9.4% of the company's stock are sold short. View Scotts Miracle-Gro's Current Options Chain.

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Scotts Miracle-Gro's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.03%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.01%), Cerebellum GP LLC (0.01%), Park National Corp OH (0.00%) and First Hawaiian Bank (0.00%). Company insiders that own Scotts Miracle-Gro stock include Adam Hanft, Brian D Finn, Denise Stump, Hagedorn Partnership, LP, Ivan C Smith, James D King, James Hagedorn, Katherine Littlefield Hagedorn, Michael C Lukemire, Nancy G Mistretta, Stephen L Johnson, Thomas N Kelly Jr and Thomas Randal Coleman. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Scotts Miracle-Gro.

SMG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pacer Advisors Inc. and Park National Corp OH. Company insiders that have sold Scotts Miracle-Gro company stock in the last year include Adam Hanft, Denise Stump, Hagedorn Partnership, LP, James D King, James Hagedorn, Katherine Littlefield Hagedorn, Michael C Lukemire, Nancy G Mistretta, Stephen L Johnson, Thomas N Kelly Jr and Thomas Randal Coleman. View Insider Buying and Selling for Scotts Miracle-Gro.

SMG stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cerebellum GP LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and First Hawaiian Bank. View Insider Buying and Selling for Scotts Miracle-Gro.

Shares of SMG 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 SMG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $102.66.

Scotts Miracle-Gro has a market capitalization of $5.70 billion and generates $2.66 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $63.70 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.71 on an earnings per share basis. Scotts Miracle-Gro employs 5,150 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Scotts Miracle-Gro.

The official website for Scotts Miracle-Gro is http://www.scotts.com/.

Scotts Miracle-Gro's mailing address is 14111 SCOTTSLAWN ROAD, MARYSVILLE OH, 43041. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at 937-644-0011 or via email at [email protected]