On Friday, Hecla Mining Co (NYSE: HL) was 0.55% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $5.49. 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 937.65%. With a float of $595.32 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 10.44%, operating margin of 1.08%, and the pretax margin is -0.2%.
Hecla Mining Co (HL) Insider and Institutional Ownership
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 67.58%. 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) Latest Financial update
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 -0.03) by -0.01. 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 937.65% 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 0.54. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 4.20.
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)
The latest stats from [Hecla Mining Co, HL] show that its last 5-days average volume of 10.35 million was superior to 9.32 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 48.70%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.26.
During the past 100 days, Hecla Mining Co’s (HL) raw stochastic average was set at 33.94%, which indicates a significant decrease from 52.17% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 29.95% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 51.85% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $6.37, while its 200-day Moving Average is $5.50. Now, the first resistance to watch is $5.62. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $5.72. The third major resistance level sits at $5.78. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $5.46, it is likely to go to the next support level at $5.40. The third support level lies at $5.30 if the price breaches the second support level.
Hecla Mining Co (NYSE: HL) Key Stats
There are 628,247K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 3.54 billion. As of now, sales total 720,230 K while income totals -84,220 K. Its latest quarter income was 245,090 K while its last quarter net income were 1,760 K.
