Smith & Nephew plc ADR (NYSE:SNN) shares, rose in value on Friday, March 28, with the stock price down by -1.27% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $28.05.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $28.41, falling within a range of $27.9 and $28.2. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.721 whereas the PE ratio was 29.96 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $31.72, and the low was $23.65. On the whole, SNN has fluctuated by -3.21% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Smith & Nephew plc ADR currently standing at about $12.25 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2016-Feb-03. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.21, with its dividend yield at 4.32%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 6.07B, with a low estimate of 1.4B and a high estimate of 1.41B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 1.41B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that SNN’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of Hold while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.53, with the price of SNN currently trading nearly -3.06% and 3.44% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 48.83, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.35% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.55%. Furthermore, Smith & Nephew plc ADR (SNN)’s beta value is 0.74, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.57.
A comparison of Smith & Nephew plc ADR (SNN) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. SNN showed an intraday change of -1.27% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 7.55%%.
Data on historical trading for Smith & Nephew plc ADR (NYSE:SNN) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.81 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 782.33K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 436.75 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.10% of Smith & Nephew plc ADR’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 7.61% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 1.15 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 1.48. According to the data, the short interest in Smith & Nephew plc ADR (SNN) stood at 26.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 1.53 million. The stock has risen by 14.12% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the SNN stock heading into the next quarter.
