SLM Corporation (SLM) — Available-Data Snapshot

We don't publish a discounted-cash-flow fair value for SLM Corporation (SLM) because the free data sources we rely on don't expose the multi-year financials a DCF needs — common for small or thinly-covered listings. Rather than invent numbers, this page shows an honest snapshot of what the public data does support: the current price and size, any relative valuation multiples that exist, a book-value view, and a price-based read. Treat it as a descriptive starting point, not a valuation and not investment advice.

On the numbers we do have, SLM trades at a recent price of $16.91, a market capitalisation of about $3,179,079,936, sitting 2% of the way up its 52-week range ($16.64–$31.06), on the NasdaqGS.

The standard alternative to a DCF is relative valuation — comparing SLM's trading multiples against a sector benchmark. Here that gives P/E of 6.1× (cheaper than the peer median of 14.0×); Fwd P/E of 5.6× (cheaper than the peer median of 13.4×); P/B of 1.5× (cheaper than the peer median of 2.6×); P/S of 2.1× (cheaper than the peer median of 4.8×); Dividend yield of 3.1% (cheaper than the peer median of 1.9%). A cheaper multiple than peers can flag a discount or a market that expects weaker growth; it is a comparison, not a recommendation.

The asset, or book-value, lens is the classic tool for asset-heavy businesses and financials. SLM shows a price-to-book (P/B) of 1.54 and book value of $10.96 per share. Price-to-book compares the market price to the accounting net-asset value per share; below 1.0 can mean a discount to net assets or that the market is pricing in trouble — descriptive either way, never a buy signal on its own.

Finally, a price-based read — explicitly not a valuation. SLM is in a down-trend (price below both its 50- and 200-day averages), trading -45.6% from its 52-week high. Over the past year the stock is -36.9%. Moving-average trend and 52-week position describe where the stock has traded; they say nothing about what it is worth.