SJW Corporation is an utilities-regulated water business based in the US. SJW Corporation shares (SJW) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. SJW Corporation employs 751 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $580 million.
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| Latest market close | $61.03 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $55.44 - $72.45 |
| 50-day moving average | $65.16 |
| 200-day moving average | $65.32 |
| Wall St. target price | $72.20 |
| PE ratio | 36.8506 |
| Dividend yield | $1.4 (2.25%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $1.74 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $61.03 from 2022-09-23
| 1 week (2022-09-19) | -6.05% |
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| 1 month (2022-08-26) | -7.22% |
| 3 months (2022-06-24) | -0.52% |
| 6 months (2022-03-25) | -9.91% |
| 1 year (2021-09-24) | -7.40% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2020-09-25) | 0.36% |
| 3 years (2019-09-26) | 68.5 |
| 5 years (2017-09-26) | 7.13% |
Valuing SJW Corporation stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of SJW Corporation's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
SJW Corporation's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 37x. In other words, SJW Corporation shares trade at around 37x 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.
SJW Corporation's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 4.1745. 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 SJW Corporation's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
SJW Corporation's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $202.2 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a SJW Corporation's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $580 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 17.29% |
| Gross profit TTM | $318.6 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 1.8% |
| Return on equity TTM | 5.19% |
| Profit margin | 9.03% |
| Book value | $34.05 |
| Market capitalisation | $1.9 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 81.61% of net profits
Recently SJW Corporation has paid out, on average, around 81.61% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 2.25% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), SJW Corporation shareholders could enjoy a 2.25% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In SJW Corporation's case, that would currently equate to about $1.4 per share.
SJW Corporation's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.
SJW Corporation's most recent dividend payout was on 31 August 2022. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 4 August 2022 (the "ex-dividend date").
SJW Corporation's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 16 March 2006. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your SJW Corporation shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for SJW Corporation shares which in turn could have impacted SJW Corporation's share price.
Over the last 12 months, SJW Corporation's shares have ranged in value from as little as $55.4363 up to $72.4537. 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 SJW Corporation's is 0.5469. This would suggest that SJW Corporation's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
SJW Group, through its subsidiaries, provides water utility services in the United States. It engages in the production, purchase, storage, purification, distribution, wholesale, and retail sale of water and wastewater services. The company also provides non-tariffed services, including water system operations, maintenance agreements, and antenna site leases; contracted services and sewer operations to water utilities; and a Linebacker protection plan for public drinking water customers in Connecticut and Maine. Its water supply consists of groundwater from wells, surface water from watershed run-off and diversion, reclaimed water, and imported water purchased from the Santa Clara Valley Water District. The company offers water service to approximately 231,000 connections that serve approximately one million people residing in portions of the cities of San Jose and Cupertino, as well as in the cities of Campbell, Monte Sereno, Saratoga, and the Town of Los Gatos; and adjacent unincorporated territories in the County of Santa Clara in the State of California. In addition, it provides water service to approximately 140,000 connections, which serve approximately 456,000 people in 81 municipalities with a service area comprising approximately 269 square miles throughout Connecticut and Maine, as well as approximately 24,000 connections that serve approximately 70,000 people in a service area comprising approximately 266 square miles in the region between San Antonio and Austin, Texas; and approximately 3,000 wastewater connections in Southbury, Connecticut. Further, the company owns undeveloped land in California and Tennessee; and owns and operates commercial buildings and warehouse properties in Tennessee.
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