Market Inference Overview -- SRE Stock

By Kim Brooks • Sunday, January 19 15:10 • Permanent Link

Sempra logged a 1.4% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $85.18 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 1.0%. SRE's trading volume is 3,627,952 compared to the stock's average volume of 3,773,213.

Sempra trades -9.56% away from its average analyst target price of $94.18 per share. The 17 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $85.0 to $102.0, and on average have given Sempra a rating of buy.

If you are considering an investment in SRE, you'll want to know the following:

Sempra's current price is 21.0% above its Graham number of $70.4, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Sempra has moved 18.8% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 23.6%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 4.54, Sempra has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 18.8 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
SRE has a forward P/E ratio of 16.6 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $5.14 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 1.87 compared to its sector average of 2.2
Sempra operates as an energy infrastructure company in the United States and internationally.
Based in San Diego, the company has 16,835 full time employees and a market cap of $53.95 Billion. Sempra currently returns an annual dividend yield of 2.9%.

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