SLM Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (SLM | NASDAQ:SLM)

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 June 1, 2026, SLM stock price climbed to $22.16 with 986,999 million shares trading.

SLM has a beta of 0.98, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. SLM has a correlation of 0.10 to the broad based SPY ETF.

SLM has a market cap of $4.18 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter SLM reported $375 million in Revenue and $1.54 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $17 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.33.

In the last 3 years, SLM traded as high as $34.97 and as low as $12.26.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that SLM belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, VTI, AVUV, VB, VBR.

SLM has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -31.0%, while SPY returned +30.0%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in SLM shares. However, SLM has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +18.9% and +4.7%, while SPY returned +11.0% and +2.8%, respectively. This indicates SLM has been having a stronger performance recently.

SLM support price is $21.71 and resistance is $22.53 (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.