On Friday, Hecla Mining Co (NYSE: HL) was -1.39% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $6.49. A 52-week range for HL has been $3.33 – $7.68.
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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Basic Materials sector saw sales topped by 5.80%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 1092.65%. With a float of $588.49 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $599.08 million.
The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 1775 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 12.41%, operating margin of -2.89%, and the pretax margin is -5.08%.
Hecla Mining Co (HL) Insider Updates
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Hecla Mining Co stocks. The insider ownership of Hecla Mining Co is 6.55%, while institutional ownership is 65.72%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Oct 02 ’24, was worth 34. In this transaction VP-Operations of this company bought 5 shares at a rate of $6.76, taking the stock ownership to the 197,359 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Sep 17 ’24, when Company’s VP-Exploration sold 108,612 for $6.77, making the entire transaction worth $734,988. This insider now owns 173,700 shares in total.
Hecla Mining Co (HL) Performance Highlights and Predictions
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 1092.65% per share during the next fiscal year.
Hecla Mining Co (NYSE: HL) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Hecla Mining Co (HL) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.58. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 5.11.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -0.07, a number that is poised to hit 0.03 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 0.27 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Hecla Mining Co (HL)
The latest stats from [Hecla Mining Co, HL] show that its last 5-days average volume of 11.01 million was superior to 8.94 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 7.74%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.31.
During the past 100 days, Hecla Mining Co’s (HL) raw stochastic average was set at 60.86%, which indicates a significant increase from 5.19% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 56.70% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 52.62% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $6.52, while its 200-day Moving Average is $5.32. Now, the first resistance to watch is $6.56. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $6.72. The third major resistance level sits at $6.80. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $6.32, it is likely to go to the next support level at $6.24. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $6.08.
Hecla Mining Co (NYSE: HL) Key Stats
There are 629,716K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 3.97 billion. As of now, sales total 720,230 K while income totals -84,220 K. Its latest quarter income was 245,660 K while its last quarter net income were 27,870 K.
