How to buy Summer Infant stock | 17.21

Summer Infant, Inc is a household & personal products business based in the US. Summer Infant shares (SUMR) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Summer Infant employs 156 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$162 million.

How to buy shares in Summer Infant

1. Compare share trading platforms. If you're a beginner, look for a platform with low commissions, expert ratings and investment tools to track your portfolio. Narrow down top brands with our comparison table.
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 Summer Infant. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: SUMR. 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 Summer Infant 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$17.21, 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 Summer Infant, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Summer Infant. 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.

How has coronavirus impacted Summer Infant's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Summer Infant's share price has had significant positive movement.

Its last market close was USD$17.21, which is 96.27% up on its pre-crash value of USD$0.6413 and 6,456.19% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$0.2625.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Summer Infant shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$6,659.54 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$61,289.11.

Summer Infant share price

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Summer Infant shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-11-19.

Latest market close	USD$17.21
52-week range	USD$1.4535 - USD$22.9
50-day moving average	USD$18.6775
200-day moving average	USD$12.9393
Wall St. target price	USD$1
PE ratio	26.091
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.661

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Summer Infant price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $17.21 from 2020-11-16

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1 month (2020-10-26)	-11.75%
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Is Summer Infant under- or over-valued?

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

Summer Infant's P/E ratio

Summer Infant's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 26x. In other words, Summer Infant shares trade at around 26x recent earnings.

That's comparable to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29).

Summer Infant's PEG ratio

Summer Infant's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.24. 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 Summer Infant's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Summer Infant's EBITDA

Summer Infant's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$10.2 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Summer Infant's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Summer Infant financials

Revenue TTM	USD$162 million
Operating margin TTM	4.15%
Gross profit TTM	USD$54.9 million
Return on assets TTM	4.84%
Return on equity TTM	19.55%
Profit margin	0.87%
Book value	$3.776
Market capitalisation	USD$35.4 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Summer Infant shares

There are currently 7,937 Summer Infant shares held short by investors – that's known as Summer Infant's "short interest". This figure is 65.8% up from 4,787 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Summer Infant shares can be evaluated.

Summer Infant's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Summer Infant's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Summer Infant shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Summer Infant shares traded daily (recently around 9448.8095238095). Summer Infant's SIR currently stands at 0.84. In other words for every 100,000 Summer Infant shares traded daily on the market, roughly 840 shares are currently held short.

However Summer Infant's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Summer Infant shares, or, against the total number of tradable Summer Infant shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Summer Infant's short interest could be expressed as 0% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Summer Infant shares in existence, roughly 0 shares are currently held short) or 0.0087% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Summer Infant shares, roughly 9 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Summer Infant.

Find out more about how you can short Summer Infant stock.

Summer Infant share dividends

We're not expecting Summer Infant to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Summer Infant's shares ever split?

Summer Infant's shares were split on a 1:9 basis on 16 March 2020. So if you had owned 9 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 Summer Infant shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 800% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Summer Infant shares which in turn could have impacted Summer Infant's share price.

Summer Infant share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Summer Infant's shares have ranged in value from as little as $1.4535 up to $22.9. 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 (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Summer Infant's is 2.0468. This would suggest that Summer Infant's shares are significantly more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent a higher risk.

Summer Infant overview

Summer Infant, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, markets, and distributes branded juvenile health, safety, and wellness products worldwide. It offers audio and video monitors; and gates, potties, entertainers, baby monitors, bath products, specialty blankets, strollers, car seats, and travel systems, as well as baby gear products under the Summer, SwaddleMe, and born free brand names. The company sells its products directly to retailers through own direct sales force and a network of independent manufacturers' representatives and distributors; and through partner's Websites and its summerinfant.com Website, as well as indirectly through international distributors, representatives, and retail customers. Summer Infant, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Summer Infant is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 22.823% of Summer Infant shares are held by insiders and 44.857% by institutions.

• How many people work for Summer Infant?

  Latest data suggests 156 work at Summer Infant.

• When does the fiscal year end for Summer Infant?

  Summer Infant's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Summer Infant based?

  Summer Infant's address is: 1275 Park East Drive, Woonsocket, RI, United States, 02895

• What is Summer Infant's ISIN number?

  Summer Infant's international securities identification number is: US8656463010

• What is Summer Infant's CUSIP number?

  Summer Infant's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 48241R108