Seeing Is Believing
SLM is currently covered by 9 analysts with an average price target of $30.06. This is a potential upside of $4.37 (17.01%) from yesterday's end of day stock price of $25.69.
SLM Corp's activity chart (see below) currently has 163 price targets and 125 ratings on display. The stock rating distribution of SLM is 68% BUY and 32% HOLD.
Analysts average stock forecasts to be materialized ratio is 90.55% with an average time for these price targets to be met of 459.28 days.
Highest price target for SLM is $43, Lowest price target is $26, average price target is $33.63.
Most recent stock forecast was given by JOHN HECHT from JEFFERIES on 16-Oct-2025. First documented stock forecast 30-Apr-2014.
Currently out of the existing stock ratings of SLM, 17 are a BUY (68%), 8 are a HOLD (32%).
Analyst name
Rating
Current price target
Potential Upside
Previous price target
Date
Price targets met ratio
Average potential upside
Average Days to Hit Target
Performance score
Buy
$31
$5.31 (20.67%)
$40
3 days ago
(16-Oct-2025)
2/5 (40%)
$5.31 (20.67%)
998
Hold
$29
$3.31 (12.88%)
$38
13 days ago
(06-Oct-2025)
15/17 (88.24%)
$1.96 (7.25%)
166
Hold
$31
$5.31 (20.67%)
$32
19 days ago
(30-Sep-2025)
4/5 (80%)
$3.6 (13.14%)
209
Buy
$37
$11.31 (44.02%)
$40
21 days ago
(28-Sep-2025)
6/9 (66.67%)
$8.97 (32.00%)
98
Buy
$43
$17.31 (67.38%)
$38
2 months 25 days ago
(24-Jul-2025)
12/15 (80%)
$10.4 (31.90%)
410
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