SLCA Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (US Silica Holdings | NYSE:SLCA)

US Silica Holdings Inc is the supplier of sand used in the hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells. The company delivers sand in basins via its extensive logistics network and has an emerging last-mile logistics capability to deliver sand direct to the well site. Its operating segment includes Oil and Gas Proppants and Industrial and Specialty Products. The company generates maximum revenue from the Oil and Gas Proppants segment.

US Silica Holdings trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol SLCA.

As of April 24, 2024, SLCA stock price declined to $12.85 with 614,599 million shares trading.

SLCA has a beta of 0.37, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. SLCA has a correlation of 0.02 to the broad based SPY ETF.

SLCA has a market cap of $1.00 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter US Silica Holdings reported $336 million in Revenue and $.28 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-8 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.03.

In the last 3 years, SLCA stock traded as high as $21.54 and as low as $7.23.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that SLCA belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, CALF, VTI, IWM, AVUV.

SLCA has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +4.6% while the SPY ETF gained +24.2%. However, in the short term, SLCA had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +23.0% vs +4.6% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, SLCA shares have been beat by the market, returning -3.2% compared to an SPY return of -2.7%.

SLCA support price is $12.66 and resistance is $13.28 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that SLCA stock will trade within this expected range on the day.