SLM Overview

SLM Corporation is a holding company, which operates through various subsidiaries and is a financial brand for higher education. The Company’s primary business is to originate and service loans it makes to students and their families to finance the cost of their education. It also offers a range of deposit products insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Its primary private education loan product is the Smart Option Student Loan, which emphasizes in-school payment features that can produce shorter terms and reduce customers’ total finance charges. The Smart Option Student Loan generally runs for six months after the borrower separates from school but can run for up to 36 months for a small subset of graduate loans. It also offers six loan products for specific graduate programs of study. These include the Sallie Mae Law School Loan, the Sallie Mae MBA Loan, the Sallie Mae Graduate School Loan for Health Professions, the Sallie Mae Medical School Loan, and others.

Wall Street analysts forecast SLM stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for SLM is31.09 USD with a low forecast of 23.00 USD and a high forecast of 37.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.

SLM Corp revenue for the last quarter amounts to 420.61M USD, increased 16.10

SLM Corp. EPS for the last quarter amounts to 1.12 USD, increased 124.00

SLM Corp (SLM) has 1788 emplpoyees as of March 02 2026.

Today SLM has the market capitalization of 3.71B USD.