Sandy Spring Bancorp (NASDAQ:SASR) concluded the trading at $30.94 on Friday, January 10 with a fall of -3.94% from its closing price on previous day.
Taking a look at stock we notice that its last check on previous day was $32.21 and 5Y monthly beta was reading 0.927 with its price kept floating in the range of $30.33 and $32.655 on the day. Company’s P/E ratio for the trailing 12 months is 16.34. Considering stock’s 52-week price range provides that SASR hit a high price of $39.55 and saw its price falling to a low level of $19.52 during that period. Over a period of past 1-month, stock came subtracting -17.58% in its value.
With its current market valuation of $1.40 billion, Sandy Spring Bancorp is set to declare its quarterly results in February. SASR Stock’s Forward Dividend of 1.70 and its yield of 5.49% are making investors’ thoughts stronger that it could climb further before the company announces its earnings for the current quarter.
In contrast, when we review SASR stock’s current outlook then short term indicators are assigning it an average of Hold, while medium term indicators are categorizing the stock at an average of 50% Buy. Long term indicators are suggesting an average of Hold for it.
Digging deeper we become aware of the PEG ratio of the SASR stock which is currently positioned at 1.76. It further provides that stock’s current price level is -9.07% away from its 20-day simple moving average and is -13.42% off its SMA50. Its relative strength index (RSI) for 14-periods is oscillating at 24.49 while volatility remained at 3.77% over the past week which changes to 3.15% when measuring it over the past month. Beta is valued at 0.95, while measure of average true range or ATR is currently at 1.06.
Having a second look at Sandy Spring Bancorp (NASDAQ:SASR) provides that stock’s average daily trading volume for 3 months was 425.32K, while it jumped to 181730 when we calculate an average volume for past 10 days. Number of outstanding shares of the stock stood at 45.13 million.
The percentage of outstanding shares held by the insiders is 3.71% while it is 72.27% for the institutional holders. The figures also indicate that as of 2024-12-13, number of stock’s short shares was 1.05 million which implies a short ratio of 4.59. This shows down a 241.00 of Short Interest in company’s outstanding shares on the day. In December the standing of shares short improved as it was 1.13 million in the previous month. Subtraction of -8.22% by stock’s current price to its year-to-date value in last trading session is likely to be increasing investors’ interest in the stock as it is hinting an extended uptrend.
