Spire Inc (NYSE: SR): A Stock Worth Watching

Spire Inc (NYSE:SR) shares, rose in value on Friday, February 14, with price up by 0.74% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $73.91.

Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $73.37, falling within a range of $73.26 and $74.49. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.597 whereas the PE ratio was 17.91 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $73.64, and the low was $57.13. On the whole, SR has fluctuated by 9.35% over the past month.

With the market capitalization of Spire Inc currently standing at about $4.31 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in March. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 3.05, with its dividend yield at 4.13%.

Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 2.69B, with a low estimate of 1.16B and a high estimate of 1.24B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 1.19B.

Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that SR’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.

The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.28, with the price of SR currently trading nearly 3.62% and 6.65% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 65.16, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.58% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.20%. Furthermore, Spire Inc (SR)’s beta value is 0.56, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.53.

A comparison of Spire Inc (SR) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. SR showed an intraday change of 0.74% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 28.00%%.

Data on historical trading for Spire Inc (NYSE:SR) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.43 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 367.50K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 58.34 million shares outstanding.

Nearly 2.83% of Spire Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 88.66% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 1.56 million shares as on 2025-01-31, resulting in a short ratio of 4.36. According to the data, the short interest in Spire Inc (SR) stood at 312.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-01-31; the number of short shares registered in 2024-12-31 reached 1.55 million. The stock has risen by 8.96% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the SR stock heading into the next quarter.

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