Stock Market Watch

Stillwater Mining – Better than expected results

by ·




Stillwater Mining Company (NYSE:SWC). Last Market Price: 12.25, Change: +2.30, % Change: (23.12%). Shares trade in the range of 10.71 – 12.31 dollars. It has a market capitalization of 1.26B dollars, making it a Small Cap Stock and has 103.08M outstanding shares. The company has a beta of 2.33, indicating, the stock to be more volatile than the market. As per the most recent quarterly report, the net income per share (EPS) is 0.92; P/E of 13.25 indicating, that the stock price to be fair valued. It operates in Basic Materials sector and belongs to Metal Mining industry. Percentage shares held by institutional investors is 103%. The company has a 52 week Price range (low – high) of $ 7.31 – 25.90. Average volumes of shares traded daily are 4,300,000. Volume traded in the last session was at 2,770,000, 0.64 times the average volume.

  • Reports Q3 (Sep)
    • EPS of $0.37 better than the estimates
    • Revenues rose 77.5% year/year to $253.7 million

For Q2 (Jun ’11), It had a Net profit margin of 19.18%, an Operating margin of 22.06%. Other Key stats and ratios are : Return on average assets of 17.01%, Return on average equity of 26.25%. The organization has an employee strength of 1,354

Consensus Recommendation is a Hold.


Estimate for sales for the Year Ending déc.-11 show a mean of 786.73 million dollars, an estimate high of 789.20 million dollars and an estimate low of 783.00 million dollars.

Estimate for sales for the Year Ending déc.-12 show a mean of 884.63 million dollars, an estimate high of 901.10 million dollars and an estimate low of 851.80 million dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Year Ending déc.-11 show a mean of 1.32 dollars, an estimate high of 1.66 dollars and an estimate low of 1.12 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 1.12 dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Year Ending déc.-12 show a mean of 1.60 dollars, an estimate high of 2.05 dollars and an estimate low of 1.15 dollars.

Sales for Quarter Ending juin-11 was estimated at 222.35 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 222.60 million dollars, 0.25 million dollars more than estimates.

Sales for Quarter Ending mars-11 was estimated at 185.60 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 170.06 million dollars, 15.54 million dollars less than estimates.

edliston
Post Written By: Ed Liston

Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing in his yacht.


Tags:

Ed Liston

Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

You may also like...