Hecla Mining Co (HL) is expecting -0.72% growth in the next quarter: What can investors do to maximize their returns?

Hecla Mining Co (NYSE: HL) kicked off on Friday, down -2.65% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $5.67. Over the past 52 weeks, HL has traded in a range of $3.33-$7.68.

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Basic Materials Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 5.80% over the last five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 955.20%. With a float of $595.32 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $628.27 million.

The firm has a total of 1775 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. 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 Activity

Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Other Precious Metals & Mining Industry. The insider ownership of Hecla Mining Co is 6.55%, while institutional ownership is 67.61%. 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) Earnings and Forecasts

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 955.20% per share during the next fiscal year.

Hecla Mining Co (NYSE: HL) Trading Performance Indicators

Take a look at Hecla Mining Co’s (HL) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.54. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 4.07.

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)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Hecla Mining Co, HL], we can find that recorded value of 10.04 million was better than the volume posted last year of 9.33 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 62.90%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.25.

During the past 100 days, Hecla Mining Co’s (HL) raw stochastic average was set at 33.94%, which indicates a significant decrease from 48.39% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 37.33% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 51.15% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $6.24, while its 200-day Moving Average is $5.55. Now, the first resistance to watch is $5.62. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $5.73. The third major resistance level sits at $5.83. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $5.42, it is likely to go to the next support level at $5.32. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $5.21.

Hecla Mining Co (NYSE: HL) Key Stats

The company with the Market Capitalisation of 3.42 billion has total of 628,247K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 720,230 K in contrast with the sum of -84,220 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 245,090 K and last quarter income was 1,760 K.