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How to buy Sun Communities stock
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Sun Communities, Inc is a reit-residential business based in the US. Sun Communities shares (SUI) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Sun Communities employs 4,044 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$1.4 billion.
How to buy shares in Sun Communities
- 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.
- 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.
- Search for Sun Communities. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: SUI. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
- Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Sun Communities reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
- Decide on how many to buy. 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 Sun Communities, depending on your broker.
- Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Sun Communities. 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.
What's in this guide?
- SUI shares summary
- Compare share dealing platforms
- Is SUI stock a buy or sell?
- Stock performance over time
- Can I short SUI shares?
- Are SUI shares over-valued?
- Sun Communities's financials
- How volatile are SUI shares?
- Does Sun Communities pay a dividend?
- Have SUI shares ever split?
- Other common questions
Sun Communities share price
Use our graph to track the performance of SUI stocks over time.Sun Communities shares at a glance
Information last updated 2021-04-09.
| 52-week range | USD$113.2456 - USD$156.8287 |
|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | USD$149.9091 |
| 200-day moving average | USD$146.0645 |
| Wall St. target price | USD$166.13 |
| PE ratio | 114.4776 |
| Dividend yield | USD$3.16 (2.05%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$1.34 |
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Is Sun Communities under- or over-valued?
Valuing Sun Communities stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Sun Communities's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Sun Communities's P/E ratio
Sun Communities's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 114x. In other words, Sun Communities shares trade at around 114x 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.
Sun Communities's PEG ratio
Sun Communities's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 29.63. 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 Sun Communities's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Sun Communities's EBITDA
Sun Communities's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$663.2 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Sun Communities's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Sun Communities financials
| Revenue TTM | USD$1.4 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 21.54% |
| Gross profit TTM | USD$847.4 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 1.96% |
| Return on equity TTM | 2.99% |
| Profit margin | 9.52% |
| Book value | $51.338 |
| Market capitalisation | USD$17.1 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Shorting Sun Communities shares
There are currently 5.4 million Sun Communities shares held short by investors – that's known as Sun Communities's "short interest". This figure is 367.1% up from 1.2 million last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Sun Communities shares can be evaluated.
Sun Communities's "short interest ratio" (SIR)
Sun Communities's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Sun Communities shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Sun Communities shares traded daily (recently around 943688.52173913). Sun Communities's SIR currently stands at 5.75. In other words for every 100,000 Sun Communities shares traded daily on the market, roughly 5750 shares are currently held short.
However Sun Communities's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Sun Communities shares, or, against the total number of tradable Sun Communities shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Sun Communities's short interest could be expressed as 0.05% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Sun Communities shares in existence, roughly 50 shares are currently held short) or 0.0564% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Sun Communities shares, roughly 56 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 Sun Communities.
Find out more about how you can short Sun Communities stock.
Sun Communities share dividends
Dividend payout ratio: 62.75% of net profits
Recently Sun Communities has paid out, on average, around 62.75% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 2.16% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Sun Communities shareholders could enjoy a 2.16% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Sun Communities's case, that would currently equate to about $3.16 per share.
Sun Communities'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.
Sun Communities's most recent dividend payout was on 14 April 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 29 March 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").
Have Sun Communities's shares ever split?
Sun Communities's shares were split on a 5:1 basis on 9 May 2006. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 5 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Sun Communities shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 80% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Sun Communities shares which in turn could have impacted Sun Communities's share price.
Sun Communities share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Sun Communities's shares have ranged in value from as little as $113.2456 up to $156.8287. 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 Sun Communities's is 0.5361. This would suggest that Sun Communities's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Sun Communities overview
Sun Communities, Inc. is a REIT that, as of September 30, 2020, owned, operated, or had an interest in a portfolio of 432 communities comprising nearly 146,000 developed sites in 32 states and Ontario, Canada.
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