How to buy Sculptor Capital Management stock | $15.2

Sculptor Capital Management, Inc is an asset management business based in the US. Sculptor Capital Management shares (SCU) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Sculptor Capital Management employs 359 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$564.1 million.

How to buy shares in Sculptor Capital Management

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Sculptor Capital Management. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: SCU. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Sculptor Capital Management reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$15.2, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Sculptor Capital Management, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Sculptor Capital Management. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Sculptor Capital Management share price

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Sculptor Capital Management shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-10.

Latest market close	USD$15.2
52-week range	USD$8.86 - USD$28.2938
50-day moving average	USD$13.1249
200-day moving average	USD$12.9324
Wall St. target price	USD$18
PE ratio	9.6815
Dividend yield	USD$1.25 (8.07%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$1.57

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Sculptor Capital Management price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $15.2 from 2020-12-09

1 week (2021-01-08)	-7.93%
1 month (2020-12-15)	4.83%
3 months (2020-10-15)	33.69%
6 months (2020-07-15)	11.68%

1 year (2020-01-15)	-28.34%
2 years (2019-01-15)	28.27%
3 years (2018-01-15)	N/A
5 years (2016-01-15)	186.25%

Is Sculptor Capital Management under- or over-valued?

Valuing Sculptor Capital Management stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Sculptor Capital Management's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Sculptor Capital Management's P/E ratio

Sculptor Capital Management's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 10x. In other words, Sculptor Capital Management shares trade at around 10x 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.

Sculptor Capital Management's EBITDA

Sculptor Capital Management's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$79.3 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Sculptor Capital Management's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Sculptor Capital Management financials

Revenue TTM	USD$564.1 million
Operating margin TTM	12.84%
Gross profit TTM	USD$179 million
Return on assets TTM	3.61%
Return on equity TTM	-21%
Profit margin	1.46%
Book value	$-13.902
Market capitalisation	USD$842.1 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Sculptor Capital Management shares

There are currently 582,887 Sculptor Capital Management shares held short by investors – that's known as Sculptor Capital Management's "short interest". This figure is 0.4% up from 580,412 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Sculptor Capital Management shares can be evaluated.

Sculptor Capital Management's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Sculptor Capital Management's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Sculptor Capital Management shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Sculptor Capital Management shares traded daily (recently around 67541.946697567). Sculptor Capital Management's SIR currently stands at 8.63. In other words for every 100,000 Sculptor Capital Management shares traded daily on the market, roughly 8630 shares are currently held short.

However Sculptor Capital Management's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Sculptor Capital Management shares, or, against the total number of tradable Sculptor Capital Management shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Sculptor Capital Management's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Sculptor Capital Management shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0314% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Sculptor Capital Management shares, roughly 31 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 Sculptor Capital Management.

Find out more about how you can short Sculptor Capital Management stock.

Sculptor Capital Management share dividends

We're not expecting Sculptor Capital Management to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Sculptor Capital Management's shares ever split?

Sculptor Capital Management's shares were split on a 1:10 basis on 4 January 2019. So if you had owned 10 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 Sculptor Capital Management shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 900% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Sculptor Capital Management shares which in turn could have impacted Sculptor Capital Management's share price.

Sculptor Capital Management share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Sculptor Capital Management's shares have ranged in value from as little as $8.86 up to $28.2938. 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 Sculptor Capital Management's is 1.4866. This would suggest that Sculptor Capital Management's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Sculptor Capital Management overview

Sculptor Capital Management, Inc. is a publicly owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm provides investment advisory services to its clients. It primarily caters to institutional investors, which include pension funds, fund-of-funds, foundations and endowments, corporations and other institutions, private banks and family offices. The firm also manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and real estate separate accounts. It also manages commingled funds and specialized products. The firm invests in equity, fixed income and real estate markets across the world. It employs quantitative and qualitative analysis to make its investments through a combination of fundamental bottom-up research, a high degree of flexibility, and integrated risk management. For its multi-strategy portfolios, the firm employs strategies like convertible and derivative arbitrage, corporate credit, long/short equity special situations, buyout investments, merger arbitrage, private investments, and structured credit. It also invests in real estate and traditional real estate assets including multifamily, office, hotel and retail, loans, portfolio acquisitions, loan pools, operating companies, structured debt products, public securities, and non-traditional real estate assets including gaming, distressed land and residential, cell towers, parking, golf, debt and senior housing. For private equity investments, it considers investments in a variety of special situations that seek to realize value through strategic sales or initial public offerings. The firm was previously known as Och-Ziff Capital Management Group Inc. Sculptor Capital Management, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is based New York, New York.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Sculptor Capital Management is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 21.017% of Sculptor Capital Management shares are held by insiders and 50.927% by institutions.

• How many people work for Sculptor Capital Management?

  Latest data suggests 359 work at Sculptor Capital Management.

• When does the fiscal year end for Sculptor Capital Management?

  Sculptor Capital Management's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Sculptor Capital Management based?

  Sculptor Capital Management's address is: 9 West 57th Street, New York, NY, United States, 10019

• What is Sculptor Capital Management's ISIN number?

  Sculptor Capital Management's international securities identification number is: US8112461079

• What is Sculptor Capital Management's CUSIP number?

  Sculptor Capital Management's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 67551U105