SMG

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
NYSEUSDEQUITY Basic Materials DELAYED
Last price
49.54
▼ 0.98 (1.94%)
MARKET · —

Price

1D — H — L — Range — Vol —
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Open
50.50
Prev close
50.52
Day high
50.14
Day low
49.27
Volume
48.37K
Market cap
$2.88B
P/E (TTM)
17.69
52W range
47.90 – 75.34

Day trading desk

Current session · delayed
Gap from prior close
-0.04%
Prior close 50.52
VWAP
49.68
-0.28% from price
Relative volume
0.05×
Quiet session
Session range
2.51%
49.26 – 50.50
Position in range
22%
Near session low
ATR (14D)
1.73
3.50% of price
Prior day high
50.74
PDH
Prior day low
49.20
PDL
Bid / ask spread
—
Quote not published
Session volume
47.43K
Avg 1.02M

VWAP and the session figures are computed from the delayed intraday series on this page, so they lag the live tape and will not match a broker's real-time VWAP exactly. Turn on Prior day H/L/C, Opening range and Volume profile in the chart's Studies menu to see these levels drawn on price.

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
-1.14% -2.6%
1M
-13.89% -15.0%
3M
-24.08% -27.1%
6M
-22.38% -36.9%
YTD
-15.10% -28.6%
1Y
-13.66% -28.9%
3Y
+4.03% -77.1%
5Y
— —

Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Unusual options activity

Account required
Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
Free account required

Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

Free account

5 more panels on SMG open with an account.

Options chains and analytics, valuation ratios, insider filings, analyst targets and ownership. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
+44.45K
Net buying
Buy transactions
6
46.45K shares
Sell transactions
2
2.00K shares
Net transactions
+8
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
0.0 : 1
Mixed
Insider-held shares
13.78M
Total on file
Bought 46.45KSold 2.00K

Insider transactions

Account required
DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
Oct 1, 26
JOHNSON STEPHEN L
Director
STOCK 144 $0 Direct
Oct 1, 26
SANDOVAL BRIAN E.
Director
STOCK 575 $0 Direct
Aug 10, 26
KINGDON MARK D
Director
SELL 831 $51.23K Direct
Jul 30, 26
JOHNSON STEPHEN L
Director
SELL 1.17K $80.00K Direct
Jul 1, 26
BAXTER NATHAN ERIC
Chief Executive Officer
STOCK 29.17K $0 Direct
Jul 1, 26
MIARITIS NICK
Officer
STOCK 16.04K $0 Direct
Jul 1, 26
JOHNSON STEPHEN L
Director
STOCK 105 $7.20K Direct
Jul 1, 26
SANDOVAL BRIAN E.
Director
STOCK 420 $28.80K Direct
Apr 1, 26
JOHNSON STEPHEN L
Director
STOCK 112 $6.83K Direct
Apr 1, 26
JOHNSON STEPHEN L
Director
STOCK 6 $366 Direct
Apr 1, 26
SANDOVAL BRIAN E.
Director
STOCK 472 $28.80K Direct
Mar 30, 26
HAGEDORN JAMES
Chief Executive Officer
— 1.72K — Direct
Feb 24, 26
SCHEIWER MARK J
Chief Financial Officer
BUY 693 $49.50K Direct
Feb 12, 26
HAGEDORN PARTNERSHIP, L. P.
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security
SELL 50.00K $3.32M Indirect
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

Free account required

Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

10 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
BAXTER NATHAN ERIC
Chief Executive Officer 127.37K Stock Award(Grant)
GARTH MATTHEW E
Chief Financial Officer 32.30K Stock Award(Grant)
HAGEDORN CHRISTOPHER J.
Officer 60.10K Stock Award(Grant)
HAGEDORN JAMES
Chief Executive Officer 88.56K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
HAGEDORN PARTNERSHIP, L. P.
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security — Sale
HAGEDORN ROBERT
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security — Sale
HANFT ADAM
Director 45.02K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
JOHNSON STEPHEN L
Director 30.32K Stock Award(Grant)
LITTLEFIELD KATHERINE HAGEDORN
Director and Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security 2.78M Stock Award(Grant)
SHUMLIN PETER E.
Director 30.85K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$2.88B
Enterprise value$5.40B
Revenue (TTM)$3.48B
Gross profit$1.12B
EBITDA$534.80M
Net income$154.90M
EPS (TTM)$2.80
Free cash flow$248.50M
Total cash$27.70M
Total debt$2.49B
Book value / share$-3.59
Shares outstanding58.22M
Float44.58M
Short % of float10.58%
Dividend yield5.23%
Beta (5Y)1.85

Valuation & profitability ratios

Account required
Trailing P/E17.69
Forward P/E10.49
PEG ratio0.71
Price / sales—
Price / book—
EV / revenue1.55
EV / EBITDA10.10
Gross margin32.16%
Operating margin16.83%
Profit margin2.12%
Return on equity—
Return on assets9.29%
Debt / equity—
Current ratio1.22
Free account required

Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

As reported · 4 years · 5 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item2025202420232022YoY
Total revenue $3.41B$3.55B$3.55B$3.92B -3.9%
Operating revenue $3.41B$3.55B$3.55B$3.92B -3.9%
Cost of revenue $2.37B$2.70B$2.89B$3.05B -12.3%
Gross profit $1.04B$850.50M$657.30M$872.90M +22.8%
Research & development $34.80M$34.60M$35.70M$45.30M +0.6%
Selling, general & admin $556.90M$510.50M$493.00M$536.70M +9.1%
Total operating expense $622.20M$578.90M$551.20M$613.80M +7.5%
Operating income $422.00M$271.60M$106.10M$259.10M +55.4%
Net interest income -$128.80M-$158.80M-$178.10M-$118.10M +18.9%
Pre-tax income $221.70M-$23.60M-$453.30M-$558.10M +1,039.4%
Tax provision $76.50M$11.30M-$73.20M-$120.60M +577.0%
Net income $145.20M-$34.90M-$380.10M-$437.50M +516.0%
Net income to common $145.20M-$34.90M-$380.10M-$437.50M +516.0%
Basic EPS 2.52-0.61-6.79-7.88 +513.1%
Diluted EPS 2.47-0.61-6.79-7.88 +504.9%
EBIT $350.50M$135.20M-$275.20M-$440.00M +159.2%
EBITDA $425.50M$215.80M-$182.70M-$334.80M +97.2%
Basic shares 57.60M56.80M56.00M55.50M +1.4%
Diluted shares 58.70M56.80M56.00M55.50M +3.3%

Options analytics

Account required
Put / call volume
0.74
Call-heavy session
Put / call open interest
0.71
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
52.50
+6.0% from spot
ATM implied vol
55.4%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
-1.6%
Calls bid over puts
Call volume
100
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
74
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
55.00
239 contracts
Heaviest put OI
47.50
289 contracts

Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

Free account required

Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Jun 2026 2.522.82 +11.7%
Mar 2026 4.014.53 +12.9%
Dec 2025 -1.00-0.77 +23.3%
Sep 2025 -1.98-1.96 +0.8%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter -2.21 7 $306.11M -21.0%
Next quarter -0.73 5 $363.97M +2.7%
Current year 4.42 8 $3.29B -3.6%
Next year 4.70 8 $3.36B +2.3%

Analyst targets & ownership

Account required
Mean target$74.17
High target$82.00
Low target$60.00
Implied upside49.71%
Analyst count6
ConsensusBUY
Strong buy / Buy1 / 4
Hold3
Sell / Strong sell0 / 0
Held by insiders23.67%
Held by institutions88.80%
Institutions holding597
Free account required

Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
49.83
-0.58% from price
SMA 20
52.05
-4.81% from price
SMA 50
58.00
-14.58% from price
SMA 100
60.91
-18.66% from price
SMA 200
62.22
-20.38% from price
EMA 12
50.67
-2.22% from price
EMA 26
53.24
-6.95% from price
EMA 50
56.44
-12.22% from price
RSI (14)
33.6
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
-2.58
Hist 0.15
ATR (14)
1.73
3.50% of price
Realised vol 30D
27.8%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
57.27
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
46.82
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Death
58.00 vs 62.22
Trend bias
Below 200
-20.38%

Options chain

Account required
Expiry
Spot 49.54
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Free account required

Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
0.79
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.28
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
27.8%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-34.1%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-77.3%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
1.73
3.50% of price
Beta (reported)
1.85
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
4.73M
Prior 4.21M
Change vs prior
+12.3%
Shorts adding
% of float
10.58%
Elevated
% of shares out
8.13%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
5.7
Crowded exit
Float
44.58M
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Rating changes

160 on file
DateFirm ActionFromTo
Oct 5, 26 Wells Fargo MAINTAINED Overweight Overweight
Sep 29, 26 Stifel MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Aug 3, 26 Stifel MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Jul 30, 26 UBS MAINTAINED Neutral Neutral
Jul 30, 26 Wells Fargo MAINTAINED Overweight Overweight
Jul 16, 26 UBS MAINTAINED Neutral Neutral
Jul 8, 26 Wells Fargo MAINTAINED Overweight Overweight
Jun 8, 26 Stifel MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Apr 8, 26 Wells Fargo MAINTAINED Overweight Overweight
Mar 26, 26 JP Morgan DOWNGRADE Overweight Neutral
Mar 3, 26 Stifel MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Jan 29, 26 Wells Fargo MAINTAINED Overweight Overweight

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate$2.64 / yr
Forward yield5.23%
5-year avg yield3.56%
Payout ratio101.93%
Ex-dividend dateAug 21, 2026
Next pay dateSep 4, 2026
Last split2:1
Split dateNov 10, 2005

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