SM Energy Co Shares Down 3.27 percent on Oct 15

SM Stock  USD 44.51  0.27  0.61%   
About 54% of SM Energy's investors are presently thinking to get in. The current sentiment of investing in SM Energy Co suggests that some traders are interested. SM Energy's investing sentiment overview a quick insight into current market opportunities from investing in SM Energy Co. Many technical investors use SM Energy stock news signals to limit their universe of possible portfolio assets and to time the market correctly.
  
Shares of SM Energy Co fell 3.27 percent in mid-day trading on Oct 15. The stock reached an intraday low of 42.61, before recovering slightly to 43.16, down

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SM Energy Current Investor Sentiment

Panic Vs Confidence

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Panic
 
Confidence
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SM Energy Historical Investor Sentiment

Investor biases related to SM Energy's public news can be used to forecast risks associated with an investment in SM Energy. The trend in average sentiment can be used to explain how an investor holding SM Energy can time the market purely based on public headlines and social activities around SM Energy Co. Please note that most equities that are difficult to arbitrage are affected by market sentiment the most.
SM Energy's market sentiment shows the aggregated news analyzed to detect positive and negative mentions from the text and comments. The data is normalized to provide daily scores for SM Energy and other traded tickers. The bigger the bubble, the more accurate the estimated score. Higher bars for a given day show more participation in the average SM Energy news discussions. The higher the estimate score, the more favorable the investor's outlook on SM Energy.

SM Energy Fundamental Analysis

We analyze SM Energy's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of SM Energy using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of SM Energy based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.

Earnings Per Share

Earnings Per Share Comparative Analysis

SM Energy is currently under evaluation in earnings per share category among its peers. Earnings per Share (EPS) denotes the portion of a company's earnings that is allocated to each share of common stock. To calculate Earnings per Share investors will need to take a company's net income, subtract any dividends for preferred stock, and divide it by the number of average outstanding shares. EPS is usually presented in two different ways: basic and diluted. Fully diluted Earnings per Share takes into account effects of warrants, options, and convertible securities and is generally viewed by analysts as a more accurate measure.

SM Energy Potential Pair-trading

One of the popular trading techniques among algorithmic traders is to use market-neutral strategies where every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if one position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Below are some of the equities that can be combined with SM Energy stock to make a market-neutral strategy. Peer analysis of SM Energy could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing SM Energy by comparing valuation metrics with similar companies.

Peers

SM Energy Related Equities

PRPermian Resources   2.09   
0%
100.0%
OBEObsidian Energy   1.43   
0%
68.0%
MTDRMatador Resources   0.92   
0%
44.0%
ARAntero Resources   0.91   
0%
43.0%
RRCRange Resources   0.69   
0%
33.0%
EQTEQT   0.63   
0%
30.0%
VTLEVital Energy   0.58   
0%
27.0%
CRKComstock Resources   0.33   
0%
15.0%
CIVICivitas Resources   0.33   
0%
15.0%
MGYMagnolia Oil   0.29   
0%
13.0%
FANGDiamondback Energy   0.04   
1.0%
0%
MURMurphy Oil   0.12   
5.0%
0%
Is Oil & Gas Exploration & Production space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of SM Energy. If investors know SM Energy will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about SM Energy listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth
0.112
Dividend Share
0.74
Earnings Share
7.14
Revenue Per Share
20.3
Quarterly Revenue Growth
(0.04)
The market value of SM Energy is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of SM Energy that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of SM Energy's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is SM Energy's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because SM Energy's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect SM Energy's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between SM Energy's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if SM Energy is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, SM Energy's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.