SMG Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Scotts Miracle Gro | NYSE:SMG)

Scotts Miracle-Gro is the largest purveyor of home lawn and gardening products in the US. The business consists of three reporting segments: US consumer, Hawthorne, and other. The US consumer segment consists of a broad range of lawncare products, including grass seed, fertilizer, and lawn-related weed, animal, and disease control. US consumer typically generates the vast majority of companywide revenue and profits. Hawthorne sells indoor gardening and hydroponic equipment, particularly to the cannabis growing industry, while the other segment primarily consists of lawn and gardening products sold in Canada. Its lawncare and gardening products are well-recognized brands in the US, including Scotts, Miracle-Gro, Roundup, Ortho, and Tomcat.

Scotts Miracle Gro trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol SMG.

As of December 31, 2025, SMG stock price climbed to $58.35 with 555,757 million shares trading.

SMG has a beta of 0.96, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. SMG has a correlation of 0.20 to the broad based SPY ETF.

SMG has a market cap of $3.38 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Scotts Miracle Gro reported $387 million in Revenue and -$1.96 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-10 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.03.

In the last 3 years, SMG traded as high as $93.90 and as low as $43.67.

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

SMG has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -6.4% while the SPY ETF gained +17.2%. However, in the short term, SMG had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +3.6% vs +2.7% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, SMG shares have been beat by the market, returning -0.5% compared to an SPY return of +0.7%.

SMG support price is $56.48 and resistance is $58.94 (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 SMG shares will trade within this expected range on the day.