On Monday, Hecla Mining Co (NYSE: HL) was -2.62% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $5.73. A 52-week range for HL has been $3.33 – $7.68.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Basic Materials Sector giant was 5.80%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 950.00%. With a float of $595.30 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $599.08 million.
Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 1775 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 10.44%, operating margin of -2.02%, and the pretax margin is -0.2%.
Hecla Mining Co (HL) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
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 64.71%. 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) Recent Fiscal highlights
Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 9/30/2024, it has been observed that the corporation posted -0.04 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was less than consensus figure (set at -0.02) by -0.02. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.08 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 950.00% 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 0.54. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 4.02.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -0.03, a number that is poised to hit 0.05 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 0.25 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Hecla Mining Co (HL)
Looking closely at Hecla Mining Co (NYSE: HL), its last 5-days average volume was 15.95 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 9.11 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 12.58%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.32.
During the past 100 days, Hecla Mining Co’s (HL) raw stochastic average was set at 35.78%, which indicates a significant increase from 10.28% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 32.08% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 52.96% 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 $5.38. However, in the short run, Hecla Mining Co’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $5.68. Second resistance stands at $5.78. The third major resistance level sits at $5.94. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $5.43, it is likely to go to the next support level at $5.27. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $5.17.
Hecla Mining Co (NYSE: HL) Key Stats
There are 629,716K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 3.38 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.
