SFL Corporation Ltd. (SFL) Down -19.81% From Its 52-Week High, But Growth Potential Is Changing Over Time

SFL Corporation Ltd. (NYSE:SFL) currently has a daily average trading volume of 803.86K but it saw 960210 shares traded on Thursday. With a market cap of 1.32B USD, stock’s current market price of $9.30 came rising about 0.98 while comparing to the previous closing price of $9.21. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $11.60 and as low as $8.71. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $9.365 while lowest mark touched by it was $8.97.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of SFL Corporation Ltd. (SFL) gives us an average price of $10.09, while its current price level is -19.81% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 6.77% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $10.01 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $9.97. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 3.28% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 2.32%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 29.71 which implies that the stock is in oversold territory.

SFL Corporation Ltd. (SFL)’s stock is currently under the radar of 3 analysts who are in consensus at a 12-month price target range of between $11.20 and $13.00 for company’s shares. The average price target assigned by the average number of analysts to a stock is a way to gauge worth of any stock in next 52 weeks. And in assigning price target to a stock, some analysts adopt a bearish approach by advocating lower-than-average price target which in this case is $11.20 while some adopt bullish approach by assigning higher-than-average price target which reads the price to top $13.00. Average price target assigned by them is $12.05 which highlights an upside potential of 22.82% for the stock over that period. And to attain the median price target of $12.00 assigned by those analysts, stock has to add about 22.5% of value to its current levels.

Data by FactSet Research shows that 3 analysts have issued their ratings for the stock. 0 of them are in opinions that stock is a Sell, while 0 are advising it as an Overweight. 2 analysts suggested the investors to Buy the stock while 1 advised them to Hold. Recommendations by all of those brokerages imply a consensus rating of Overweight for the stock and that issued by Wall Street to investors is Moderate Buy.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the DNB Markets which downgraded the stock as “Hold” in its note to investors issued on November 09, 2021, recommending a price target of $8 for it. Jefferies upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Hold” on August 19, 2021 while assigning a price target of $9. DNB Markets also issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock is $14.70.

Over the week, SFL’s stock price is moving -7.46% down while it is -10.06% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 0.87% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -3.73%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company was for quarter ended 9/29/2022, when its quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of $0.39 beat the consensus estimate of $0.24 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in 05/31/2023, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of $0.28 while estimate for next year EPS is $1.5. For SFL, analysts are forecasting an EPS-growth rate of 11.10% for current year and estimate for EPS growth in next year is -38.00%. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $176.9 million as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $646.15 million and seeing the company making $696.86 million in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $175.5 million for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, SFL Corporation Ltd.’s total number of outstanding shares is 126.80M with 24.41% of that held by the insiders while 34.72% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 7.30% and return on equity (ROE) at 19.20%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 5.82 while having a 6.96 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.84. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.08 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.96. Its return on asset (ROA) is 5.50% on average.

A filing at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission revealed that iShares Russell 2000 ETF came shrinking its share ownership by -0.32% in the SFL Corporation Ltd. (SFL) decreasing its stake to 1.80% with control over 7902.0 shares in the company. As per SEC documents, iShares Russell 2000 ETF sought 2,499,877 of company’s common stock of worth $25.8 million as per recent closing price of the stock. iShares Russell 2000 ETF is not the only institutional holder which restructured its stake in SFL Corporation Ltd., as iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF picked 1,157,858 shares of worth $11.95 million to bring its holdings to a total of 3520.0 shares. In the most recent quarter, Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF came rising its stake by 0.16% in the company and now holds 1.09 million or 0.79% of the company’s stake having worth of about 11.3 million.