Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE:SMG) shares, rose in value on Friday, July 11, with the stock price down by -0.14% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $69.31.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $69.41, falling within a range of $68.32 and $70.0. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.969 whereas the PE ratio was 138.40 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $93.90, and the low was $45.61. On the whole, SMG has fluctuated by 8.23% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Scotts Miracle-Gro Company currently standing at about $4.00 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Apr-30. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 2.64, with its dividend yield at 3.81%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that SMG’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 4.46, with the price of SMG currently trading nearly 5.94% and 12.32% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 68.04, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.51% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.66%. Furthermore, Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG)’s beta value is 1.96.
A comparison of Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. SMG showed an intraday change of -0.14% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 4.48%%.
Data on historical trading for Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE:SMG) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.7 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.20 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 57.70 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 24.11% of Scotts Miracle-Gro Company’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 73.64% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 4.39 million shares as on 2025-06-13, resulting in a short ratio of 3.85. According to the data, the short interest in Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG) stood at 999.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-06-13; the number of short shares registered in 2025-05-15 reached 3.89 million. The stock has risen by 13.51% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the SMG stock heading into the next quarter.
