Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:SMFG) price on Friday, March 17, fall -2.92% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $7.66.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $7.89, moving within a range at $7.66 and $7.83. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.81 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 8.43. Turning to its 52-week performance, $9.18 and $5.39 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, SMFG moved -13.45% over the past month.
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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.’s market cap currently stands at around $56.73 billion. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.02, with its dividend yield at 13.28%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report. Analysts project the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be $0.1, which has seen fiscal year 2023 EPS growth forecast to increase to $0.89 and about $0.91 for fiscal year 2024. Per the data, EPS growth is expected to be -3.30% for 2023 and 2.20% for the next financial year.
Revisions could be used as tool to get short term price movement insight, and for the company that in the past seven days was no upward and no downward review(s). Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that SMFG is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
14 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 11 recommend SMFG as a Buy and 3 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 1.34, with SMFG’s current price about -10.95% and -10.87% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 30.60, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.70% and 1.65% in the 30-day chart. Further, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. (SMFG) has a beta value of 0.72, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.22. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $9.74, forecast between a low of $8.00 and high of $11.15. Looking at the price targets, the low is -4.44% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -45.56%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -27.55% jump to $9.77 which is the analysts’ median price.
In the market, a comparison of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. (SMFG) and its peers suggest the former has performed considerably weaker. Data shows SMFG’s intraday price has changed -2.92% in last session and 11.18% over the past year. Comparatively, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. (MUFG) has moved -2.54% on the day and only -4.06% in the past 12 months. Looking at another peer, we see that Mizuho Financial Group Inc. (MFG) price has dipped -1.79% on the day. However, the stock is -1.08% off its price a year ago. Moreover, Barclays PLC (BCS) is also down -3.30% in trading on the day while keeping a a downtrend of -27.58% over the past year. If we look at the PE ratio, we find that Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.’s ratio stands at 8.43 compared to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.’s 25.80. Elsewhere, the overall performance for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial shows that the indexes are down -1.10% and -1.19% respectively in the last trading.
If we refocus on Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:SMFG), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 7.33 million over the past 10 days and 4.08 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 6.83 billion shares.
Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 3.27 million on Jan 30, 2023, giving us a short ratio of 0.78. The data shows that as of Jan 30, 2023 short interest in Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. (SMFG) stood at 0.05% of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 5.49 million registered in Dec 29, 2022. Current price change has pushed the stock -4.49% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the SMFG stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
