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Sharps Compliance is a waste management business based in the US. Sharps Compliance shares (SMED) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $8.75 – the same closing value as a week prior. Sharps Compliance employs 190 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $69.1 million.
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Sharps Compliance stock price (NASDAQ: SMED)
Use our graph to track the performance of SMED stocks over time.Sharps Compliance shares at a glance
Latest market close | $8.75 |
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52-week range | $0.00 - $0.00 |
50-day moving average | $6.40 |
200-day moving average | $6.01 |
Wall St. target price | $7.38 |
PE ratio | 36.4583 |
Dividend yield | $0 (0%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.24 |
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Sharps Compliance price performance over time
Historical closes compared with the close of $8.75 from 2022-08-23
1 week (2024-10-06) | N/A |
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1 month (2024-09-13) | N/A |
3 months (2024-07-13) | N/A |
6 months (2024-04-13) | N/A |
1 year (2023-10-13) | N/A |
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2 years (2022-10-13) | N/A |
3 years (2021-10-15) | 9.92% |
5 years (2019-10-17) | 113.41% |
Is Sharps Compliance stock undervalued or overvalued?
Valuing Sharps Compliance stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Sharps Compliance's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Sharps Compliance's P/E ratio
Sharps Compliance's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 36x. In other words, Sharps Compliance shares trade at around 36x 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.
Sharps Compliance's PEG ratio
Sharps Compliance's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.49. 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 Sharps Compliance's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Sharps Compliance's EBITDA
Sharps Compliance's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $3.4 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Sharps Compliance's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Sharps Compliance financials
Revenue TTM | $69.1 million |
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Operating margin TTM | 1.55% |
Gross profit TTM | $28.9 million |
Return on assets TTM | 0.82% |
Return on equity TTM | 7.82% |
Profit margin | 5.84% |
Book value | $3.32 |
Market Capitalization | $170 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Sharps Compliance share dividends
We're not expecting Sharps Compliance to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Have Sharps Compliance's shares ever split?
Sharps Compliance's shares were split on a 5:4 basis on 23 July 1998. So if you had owned 4 shares 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 Sharps Compliance shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 20% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Sharps Compliance shares which in turn could have impacted Sharps Compliance's share price.
Sharps Compliance share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Sharps Compliance's shares have ranged in value from as little as $0 up to $0. 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 Sharps Compliance's is 1.2814. This would suggest that Sharps Compliance's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Sharps Compliance overview
Sharps Compliance Corp. provides medical, pharmaceutical, and hazardous waste management services in the United States. It offers Sharps Recovery System for the containment, transportation, treatment, and tracking of medical waste generated outside the hospital and health care facility settings; TakeAway Recovery System to treat used needles, syringes, and other used healthcare products; Route-Based Pickup Service, a medical and hazardous waste pick-up services; and MedSafe, a solution for the safe collection, transportation, and disposal of unwanted and expired ultimate-user medications. The company also provides TakeAway Medication Recovery System that facilitates the proper disposal of unused medications; Black Pail Program for Rx, a solution with minimal segregation for the disposal of various pharmaceuticals; Inhaler Disposal to collect, transport, and destroy used pharmaceutical inhalers; Hazardous Drug Spill Control Kit for the cleanup of chemotherapy and other HD spills; TakeAway Recycle System for the collection and recycling of single-use medical devices from surgical centers and other healthcare facilities; ComplianceTRAC, a Web-based compliance and training program; and Universal Waste Shipback Systems to collect, transport, and recycle light bulbs, batteries, and other mercury containing devices. In addition, it offers other solutions, such as TakeAway Environmental Return System, SharpsTracer, Sharps Secure, Needle Disposal System, Complete Needle Collection and Disposal System, Pitch-It IV Poles, Asset Return System, and Spill Kit Recovery System, as well as Sharps MWMS, a medical waste management system. The company serves customers in home health care, retail clinics and immunizing pharmacies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, professional offices, assisted living and long-term care facilities, and government agencies, as well as distributors. Sharps Compliance Corp.
Frequently asked questions
What percentage of Sharps Compliance is owned by insiders or institutions?Currently 17.425% of Sharps Compliance shares are held by insiders and 55.841% by institutions. How many people work for Sharps Compliance?
Latest data suggests 190 work at Sharps Compliance. When does the fiscal year end for Sharps Compliance?
Sharps Compliance's fiscal year ends in June. Where is Sharps Compliance based?
Sharps Compliance's address is: 9220 Kirby Drive, Houston, TX, United States, 77054 What is Sharps Compliance's ISIN number?
Sharps Compliance's international securities identification number is: US8200171010 What is Sharps Compliance's CUSIP number?
Sharps Compliance's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 820017101
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