Standard Motor Products Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:SMP)

Standard Motor Products trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SMP."

Standard Motor Products declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, July 25th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, August 15th will be given a dividend of $0.23 per share on Tuesday, September 3rd. This represents a $0.92 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.83%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, August 14th. View Standard Motor Products' Dividend History.

Standard Motor Products announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback plan on Friday, May 18th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $20,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy up to 2% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are generally a sign that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Standard Motor Products, Inc. (NYSE:SMP) posted its earnings results on Thursday, July, 25th. The auto parts company reported $0.92 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.80 by $0.12. The auto parts company had revenue of $305.17 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $302.47 million. Standard Motor Products had a net margin of 4.48% and a return on equity of 13.71%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 6.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.74 earnings per share. View Standard Motor Products' Earnings History.

Standard Motor Products is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, October 25th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Standard Motor Products.

News stories about SMP stock have trended negative on Wednesday, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog 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. Standard Motor Products earned a coverage optimism score of -2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the auto parts company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Standard Motor Products.

Standard Motor Products saw a decrease in short interest in the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totalling 346,700 shares, a decrease of 18.1% from the August 15th total of 423,300 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 88,400 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.9 days. Currently, 1.8% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Standard Motor Products' Current Options Chain.

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Standard Motor Products' stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Tributary Capital Management LLC (1.90%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.29%), Strs Ohio (0.07%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.07%) and Alpha Windward LLC (0.04%). Company insiders that own Standard Motor Products stock include Carmine Joseph Broccole, Dale Burks, Eric Sills, Frederick D Sturdivant, James J Burke, John P Gethin, Lawrence I Sills, Pamela Forbes Lieberman, Peter J Sills, Ray Nicholas and Thomas Tesoro. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Standard Motor Products.

SMP stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Strs Ohio. Company insiders that have sold Standard Motor Products company stock in the last year include Carmine Joseph Broccole, Dale Burks, Eric Sills, James J Burke, Lawrence I Sills, Pamela Forbes Lieberman, Peter J Sills and Thomas Tesoro. View Insider Buying and Selling for Standard Motor Products.

SMP stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Tributary Capital Management LLC, Alpha Windward LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Envestnet Asset Management Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Standard Motor Products.

Shares of SMP 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 SMP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $50.31.

Standard Motor Products has a market capitalization of $1.12 billion and generates $1.09 billion in revenue each year. The auto parts company earns $43 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.55 on an earnings per share basis. Standard Motor Products employs 4,400 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Standard Motor Products.

The official website for Standard Motor Products is http://www.smpcorp.com/.

Standard Motor Products' mailing address is 37-18 NORTHERN BOULEVARD, LONG ISLAND CITY NY, 11101. The auto parts company can be reached via phone at 718-392-0200 or via email at [email protected]