SLM (SLM) closed at $17.72 on October 28, 2026, down 5.6% from the previous close, on volume of 6,511,869 shares (30-day average 3,112,184).
Data as of October 28, 2026.
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SLM Corp is an education solutions company. Its business is to originate and service loans to students and their families to finance the cost of their education. The term' Private Education Loans to mean education loans to students or their families that are not made, insured, or guaranteed by any state or federal government.
SLM trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol SLM.
As of October 29, 2026, SLM stock price climbed to $18.32 with 685,338 million shares trading.
SLM has a beta of 0.71, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. SLM has a correlation of 0.05 to the broad based SPY ETF.
SLM has a market cap of $3.44 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
Last quarter SLM reported $339 million in Revenue and -$.19 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-21 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.37.
In the last 3 years, SLM traded as high as $34.97 and as low as $12.81.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that SLM belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IJH, AVUV, VB, SDVY.
SLM has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -33.3% while the SPY ETF gained +13.2%. SLM has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -26.8% and -17.4%, respectively, while the SPY returned +4.2% and 0.0%, respectively.
SLM support price is $17.28 and resistance is $18.16 (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 SLM shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
