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Steamships Trading Company Limited is an integrated freight & logistics business based in Australia. Steamships Trading Company shares (SST) are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and all prices are listed in Australian Dollars. Steamships Trading Company has a market cap (total outstanding shares value) of $294.6 million.
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52-week range | $9 - $13.25 |
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50-day moving average | $9.6794 |
200-day moving average | $9.6479 |
Target price | N/A |
PE ratio | 12.7551 |
Dividend yield | $0.3 (3.13%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.6222 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of A$9.5 on 2020-10-22
1 week (2021-01-13) | 0% |
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1 month (2020-12-21) | 0% |
3 months (2020-10-21) | 0% |
6 months (2020-07-21) | -1.55% |
1 year (2020-01-20) | -24.00% |
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2 years (2019-01-17) | N/A |
3 years (2018-01-19) | -43.28% |
5 years (2016-01-20) | -52.50% |
Valuing Steamships Trading Company stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Steamships Trading Company 's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Steamships Trading Company 's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 13x. In other words, Steamships Trading Company shares trade at around 13x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the P/E ratio for the ASX over the 12 months to December 2019 (32.14). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Gross profit TTM | $473.6 million |
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Return on assets TTM | 3.19% |
Return on equity TTM | 6.33% |
Profit margin | 9.81% |
Book value | N/A |
Market capitalisation | $294.6 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 39.88% of net profits
Recently Steamships Trading Company has paid out, on average, around 39.88% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 3.13% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Steamships Trading Company shareholders could enjoy a 3.13% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Steamships Trading Company 's case, that would currently equate to about A$0.3 per share.
While Steamships Trading Company 's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Steamships Trading Company may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 29 April 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").
Over the last 12 months, Steamships Trading Company 's shares have ranged in value from as little as $9 up to $13.25. 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 (AU average) beta is 1, while Steamships Trading Company 's is -0.133. This would suggest that Steamships Trading Company 's shares have been inversely-correlated to the average (for this exchange) – so when the broader market trended up or down, Steamships Trading Company has bucked the trend.
Steamships Trading Company Limited engages in the shipping, transport, property, manufacturing, and hotel businesses in Papua New Guinea. It operates through three segments: Hotels and Property, Logistics, and Commercial and Investment. It offers scheduled cargo liner services to manufacturers, wholesalers, and liner carriers; depot services comprising equipment hire, warehousing, and yard storage; short and long term vessel charters specialized in shallow water river shipping; and intermodal logistics solutions linked to land based services, such as road transport, cargo handling, storage, agency, customs clearance, lay down areas, and warehousing. It also provides harbor, coastal, and ocean towage, as well as mooring services; and ancillary marine services, such as life raft sales, rental, servicing, commercial diving, subsea pipeline inspections, PLEM hook up and release, and pollution prevention and oil spill response services. In addition, it operates a fleet of prime movers, heavy and light trucks, forklifts, and reach stackers for the transport of bulk fuel, containerized cargoes, and sawdust and break-bulk cargoes; offers customs cargo clearance service in Lae and Port Moresby; and provides project solutions for the mining, oil and gas, and commercial sectors. Further, it operates nine hotel, and residence and apartment properties with 592 hotel rooms, 127 apartments, and 138 residences, which offer serviced hotel rooms and apartments, and food and beverage outlets, as well as recreation and meeting, conference, and banqueting facilities; and develops and holds residential, commercial, retail, and industrial properties. Additionally, is involved in the commercial and insurance activities. It operates a fleet of 13 coastal vessels; and 13 tugs and 10 associated support vessels. The company was incorporated in 1918 and is headquartered in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Steamships Trading Company Limited is a subsidiary of John Swire & Sons (PNG) Limited.
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