On Friday, Hecla Mining Co (NYSE: HL) was -2.35% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $5.53. A 52-week range for HL has been $3.33 – $7.68.
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A company in the Basic Materials sector has jumped its sales by 5.80% annually for the last half of the decade. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 955.20%. With a float of $595.80 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $628.27 million.
In an organization with 1775 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. 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 6.47%, 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
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
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 3.99.
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)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 10.94 million. That was better than the volume of 9.37 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 31.23%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.27.
During the past 100 days, Hecla Mining Co’s (HL) raw stochastic average was set at 30.28%, which indicates a significant increase from 19.35% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 51.90% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 53.16% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $6.14, while its 200-day Moving Average is $5.61. However, in the short run, Hecla Mining Co’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $5.50. Second resistance stands at $5.59. The third major resistance level sits at $5.67. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $5.32, it is likely to go to the next support level at $5.24. The third support level lies at $5.14 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 3.36 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.
