How to buy SiteOne Landscape Supply stock | $158.63

SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc is an industrial distribution business based in the US. SiteOne Landscape Supply shares (SITE) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. SiteOne Landscape Supply employs 4,200 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$2.6 billion.

How to buy shares in SiteOne Landscape Supply

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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 SiteOne Landscape Supply. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: SITE. 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 SiteOne Landscape Supply 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$158.63, 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 SiteOne Landscape Supply, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of SiteOne Landscape Supply. 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.

SiteOne Landscape Supply share price

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SiteOne Landscape Supply shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-28.

Latest market close	USD$158.63
52-week range	USD$53.29 - USD$161.8808
50-day moving average	USD$140.6333
200-day moving average	USD$125.6787
Wall St. target price	USD$130.5
PE ratio	61.6635
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$2.591

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Is it a good time to buy SiteOne Landscape Supply stock?

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SiteOne Landscape Supply price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $158.63 from 2020-12-31

1 week (2021-01-07)	-4.14%
1 month (2020-12-15)	6.86%
3 months (2020-10-15)	17.54%
6 months (2020-07-15)	36.53%

1 year (2020-01-15)	67.30%
2 years (2019-01-15)	199.02%
3 years (2018-01-13)	N/A
5 years (2016-01-13)	N/A

Is SiteOne Landscape Supply under- or over-valued?

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

SiteOne Landscape Supply's P/E ratio

SiteOne Landscape Supply's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 62x. In other words, SiteOne Landscape Supply shares trade at around 62x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

SiteOne Landscape Supply's PEG ratio

SiteOne Landscape Supply's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.52. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into SiteOne Landscape Supply's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

SiteOne Landscape Supply's EBITDA

SiteOne Landscape Supply's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$223.9 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a SiteOne Landscape Supply's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

SiteOne Landscape Supply financials

Revenue TTM	USD$2.6 billion
Operating margin TTM	6.33%
Gross profit TTM	USD$773.2 million
Return on assets TTM	5.99%
Return on equity TTM	19.33%
Profit margin	4.38%
Book value	$17.579
Market capitalisation	USD$7.1 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting SiteOne Landscape Supply shares

There are currently 3.2 million SiteOne Landscape Supply shares held short by investors – that's known as SiteOne Landscape Supply's "short interest". This figure is 1.5% down from 3.2 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting SiteOne Landscape Supply shares can be evaluated.

SiteOne Landscape Supply's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

SiteOne Landscape Supply's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of SiteOne Landscape Supply shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of SiteOne Landscape Supply shares traded daily (recently around 261660.90534979). SiteOne Landscape Supply's SIR currently stands at 12.15. In other words for every 100,000 SiteOne Landscape Supply shares traded daily on the market, roughly 12150 shares are currently held short.

However SiteOne Landscape Supply's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of SiteOne Landscape Supply shares, or, against the total number of tradable SiteOne Landscape Supply shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case SiteOne Landscape Supply's short interest could be expressed as 0.07% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 SiteOne Landscape Supply shares in existence, roughly 70 shares are currently held short) or 0.0726% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable SiteOne Landscape Supply shares, roughly 73 shares are currently held short).

A SIR above 10% would generally be considered pretty high, pointing to a potentially pessimistic outlook for the share price and a discouraging interest in betting against SiteOne Landscape Supply.

Find out more about how you can short SiteOne Landscape Supply stock.

SiteOne Landscape Supply share dividends

We're not expecting SiteOne Landscape Supply to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

SiteOne Landscape Supply share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, SiteOne Landscape Supply's shares have ranged in value from as little as $53.29 up to $161.8808. 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 SiteOne Landscape Supply's is 1.2112. This would suggest that SiteOne Landscape Supply's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

SiteOne Landscape Supply overview

SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc. engages in the wholesale distribution of landscape supplies in the United States and Canada. The company provides a selection of approximately 120,000 stock keeping units, including irrigation supplies, which consists controllers, valves, sprinkler heads, and irrigation and drainage pipes; fertilizers, grass seed, and ice melt products; control products, which include herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, and other pesticides; landscape accessories, which comprise mulches, soil amendments, tools, and sod; nursery goods, which consist of deciduous shrubs, evergreen shrubs and trees, ornamental trees, shade trees, both field grown and container-grown nursery stock, and plant species; and outdoor lighting products, which include accent lights, dark lights, path lights, up lights, down lights, wall lights, and pool and aquatic area lighting, as well as hardscapes, such as pavers, natural stones, blocks, and other durable materials. It also offers consultative services consisting of assistance with irrigation network design, commercial project planning, generation of sales leads, marketing services and product support, and a series of technical and business management seminars; and distributes branded products of third parties. As of December 29, 2019, the company had 550 branches in the 45 United States and six Canadian provinces. It offers its products under LESCO, SiteOne Green Tech, and Pro-Trade brand names. The company markets its products primarily to residential and commercial landscape professionals who specialize in the design, installation, and maintenance of lawns, gardens, golf courses, and other outdoor spaces through branch network and direct distribution. SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc. is headquartered in Roswell, Georgia.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of SiteOne Landscape Supply is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 1.014% of SiteOne Landscape Supply shares are held by insiders and 110.049% by institutions.

• How many people work for SiteOne Landscape Supply?

  Latest data suggests 4,200 work at SiteOne Landscape Supply.

• When does the fiscal year end for SiteOne Landscape Supply?

  SiteOne Landscape Supply's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is SiteOne Landscape Supply based?

  SiteOne Landscape Supply's address is: 300 Colonial Center Parkway, Roswell, GA, United States, 30076

• What is SiteOne Landscape Supply's ISIN number?

  SiteOne Landscape Supply's international securities identification number is: US8298261038

• What is SiteOne Landscape Supply's CUSIP number?

  SiteOne Landscape Supply's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 829826103