U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:SLCA – Get Free Report) EVP Zach Carusona sold 42,605 shares of U.S. Silica stock in a transaction dated Friday, April 26th. The shares were sold at an average price of $15.55, for a total value of $662,507.75. Following the sale, the executive vice president now directly owns 160,929 shares in the company, valued at $2,502,445.95. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link.
U.S. Silica Stock Down 2.1 %
NYSE:SLCA opened at $15.56 on Tuesday. U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. has a one year low of $10.09 and a one year high of $16.03. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.92, a current ratio of 3.62 and a quick ratio of 2.74. The company has a market cap of $1.22 billion, a PE ratio of 10.59 and a beta of 2.23. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $12.35 and its 200 day simple moving average is $11.66.
U.S. Silica (NYSE:SLCA – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Friday, April 26th. The mining company reported $0.20 EPS for the quarter, hitting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.20. The company had revenue of $325.90 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $336.59 million. U.S. Silica had a net margin of 8.08% and a return on equity of 13.77%. U.S. Silica’s revenue was down 26.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.64 earnings per share. On average, research analysts anticipate that U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. will post 1.17 earnings per share for the current year.
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About U.S. Silica
U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc produces and sells commercial silica in the United States. It operates through two segments: Oil & Gas Proppants and Industrial & Specialty Products. The company offers whole grain commercial silica products to be used as frac for oil and natural gas recovery, as well as sells its whole grain silica products for the manufacturing of glass products.
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