News articles about Schweitzer-Mauduit International (NYSE:SWM) have trended somewhat positive on Saturday, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research firm ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Schweitzer-Mauduit International earned a daily sentiment score of 0.21 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned media headlines about the company an impact score of 45.6488066220324 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock’s share price in the next few days.
Schweitzer-Mauduit International (SWM) opened at 38.01 on Friday. Schweitzer-Mauduit International has a one year low of $35.31 and a one year high of $47.01. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $37.65 and its 200 day moving average price is $40.70. The company has a market capitalization of $1.17 billion, a P/E ratio of 15.45 and a beta of 1.19.
Schweitzer-Mauduit International (NYSE:SWM) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, May 3rd. The company reported $0.66 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.69 by $0.03. Schweitzer-Mauduit International had a net margin of 8.78% and a return on equity of 18.44%. The firm had revenue of $233.30 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $220.20 million. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.80 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 8.7% on a year-over-year basis. Equities analysts anticipate that Schweitzer-Mauduit International will post $3.15 EPS for the current fiscal year.
In related news, Director Jeffrey Keenan purchased 18,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, May 12th. The shares were purchased at an average price of $39.16 per share, for a total transaction of $704,880.00. Following the transaction, the director now directly owns 2,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $78,320. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Insiders own 1.84% of the company’s stock.
About Schweitzer-Mauduit International
Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc (SWM) is a diversified producer of engineered solutions and materials for a variety of industries. The Company has two operating product line segments: Engineered Papers, and Advanced Materials and Structures. As of December 31, 2016, the Company conducted business in over 90 countries and operate 18 production locations across the world, with facilities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg, Russia, Brazil, China and Poland.
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