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Safeguard Scientifics, Inc is an asset management business based in the US. Safeguard Scientifics shares (SFE) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars.
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Latest market close | USD$7.01 |
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52-week range | USD$4.43 - USD$11.5 |
50-day moving average | USD$6.15 |
200-day moving average | USD$6.1777 |
Wall St. target price | USD$16 |
PE ratio | 7.3659 |
Dividend yield | N/A (17.99%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$0.817 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $7.01 from 2020-12-09
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3 years (2018-01-15) | N/A |
5 years (2016-01-15) | N/A |
Valuing Safeguard Scientifics stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Safeguard Scientifics's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Safeguard Scientifics's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 7x. In other words, Safeguard Scientifics shares trade at around 7x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Gross profit TTM | USD$0 |
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Return on assets TTM | -4.83% |
Return on equity TTM | -32.06% |
Profit margin | 0% |
Book value | $3.379 |
Market capitalisation | USD$134.8 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
There are currently 450,577 Safeguard Scientifics shares held short by investors – that's known as Safeguard Scientifics's "short interest". This figure is 4.3% up from 432,024 last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Safeguard Scientifics shares can be evaluated.
Safeguard Scientifics's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Safeguard Scientifics shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Safeguard Scientifics shares traded daily (recently around 75854.713804714). Safeguard Scientifics's SIR currently stands at 5.94. In other words for every 100,000 Safeguard Scientifics shares traded daily on the market, roughly 5940 shares are currently held short.
However Safeguard Scientifics's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Safeguard Scientifics shares, or, against the total number of tradable Safeguard Scientifics shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Safeguard Scientifics's short interest could be expressed as 0.02% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Safeguard Scientifics shares in existence, roughly 20 shares are currently held short) or 0.023% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Safeguard Scientifics shares, roughly 23 shares are currently held short).
A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Safeguard Scientifics.
Find out more about how you can short Safeguard Scientifics stock.
We're not expecting Safeguard Scientifics to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Safeguard Scientifics's shares were split on a 1:6 basis on 27 August 2009. So if you had owned 6 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Safeguard Scientifics shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 500% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Safeguard Scientifics shares which in turn could have impacted Safeguard Scientifics's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Safeguard Scientifics's shares have ranged in value from as little as $4.43 up to $11.5. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Safeguard Scientifics's is 1.3027. This would suggest that Safeguard Scientifics's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. no longer investing. It is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in expansion financings, growth capital, management buyouts, recapitalizations, industry consolidations, corporate spinouts, growth stage, and early stage financings. It initially invests in a Series A-C round and opportunistically in a seed round. The firm prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the technology, financial services, and healthcare sector. Within the technology sector, it invests in software as a service, adtech / digital media, Internet of Everything, enhanced security, predictive analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, enterprise software, technology enabled services, internet/new media, financial technology, cloud, mobile, social, big data, in memory, and selected business services with capital requirements of up to $25 million. Within healthcare sector, the firm invests in molecular and point-of-care diagnostics, medical devices, regenerative medicine, medical technology, digital health, healthcare technology, specialty pharmaceuticals, and selected healthcare services. It invests throughout the United States with a focus on Mid-Atlantic region, and Southeastern Canada. The firm primarily invests between $5 million and $25 million in growth equity financing and between $5 million and $10 million in early-stage financing. It typically invests in the capital structures including owner financed and bootstrapped companies, corporate division or business unit, and venture capital-backed seeking a growth partner. The firm prefers to be the largest shareholder in its portfolio companies, with ownership in the range of 20 percent to 50 percent. However, it may occasionally take a majority or smaller stake in its portfolio companies. It prefers to invest in companies having proprietary technology and intellectual property. The firm prefers to take a Board seat in its portfolio companies. The company was founded in 1953 as Lancaster Corporation and changed its name to Sa
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