Scotts Miracle-Gro Company’s recent filing unveils that its 10% Owner Hagedorn Partnership, L.P. acquired Company’s shares for reported $4.35 million on Aug 04 ’25. In the deal valued at $62.13 per share,70,000 shares were bought.
Then, Hagedorn Partnership, L.P. sold 25,000 shares, generating $1,321,750 in total proceeds. Upon selling the shares at $52.87, the Director now owns 13,344,274 shares.
Before that, Hagedorn Partnership, L.P. bought 25,000 shares. Scotts Miracle-Gro Company shares valued at $1,321,846 were divested by the 10% Owner at a price of $52.87 per share.
Stifel downgraded its Scotts Miracle-Gro Company [SMG] rating to a Hold from a a Buy in a research note published recently. A number of analysts have revised their coverage, including Jefferies’s analysts, who increased its forecast for the stock in early April from “a Hold” to “a Buy”. Truist also remained covering SMG and has increased its forecast on April 02, 2025 with a “Buy” recommendation from previously “Hold” rating. Stifel revised its rating on March 04, 2025. It rated SMG as “a Buy” which previously was an “a Hold”.
Price Performance Review of SMG
On Tuesday, Scotts Miracle-Gro Company [NYSE:SMG] saw its stock fall -1.82% to $61.37. Over the last five days, the stock has lost -9.56%. Scotts Miracle-Gro Company shares have fallen nearly -18.41% since the year began. Nevertheless, the stocks have fallen -7.49% over the past one year.
How much short interest is there in Scotts Miracle-Gro Company?
A steep rise in short interest was recorded in Scotts Miracle-Gro Company stocks on 2025-07-15, dropping by -0.19 million shares to a total of 4.2 million shares. Yahoo Finance data shows the prior-month short interest on 2025-06-13 was 4.39 million shares. There was a decline of -4.5%, which implies that there is a negative sentiment for the stock.
The most recent change occurred on December 09, 2024 when Jefferies began covering the stock and recommended ‘”a Hold”‘ rating along with a $72 price target.
