Does Hallador Energy Co (HNRG) offer a good opportunity for investors?

With 0.54 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.54 million shares. During the session, the Thermal Coal company that operates in wider Energy sector, reached to the highest price of $13.825 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $12.87. The 52-week range on HNRG shows that it touched its highest point at $14.00 and its lowest point at $4.33 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $15.00. HNRG paid its most recent dividend on 1580342400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1580342400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.69.

Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of HNRG was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 11.40%, but this was up by 29.21% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 120.42% while six-month performance rose 70.11%. The stock gained 15.30% in the past year, while it has gained 52.60% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HNRG yields -0.59 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.11. For the next quarter, that number is -0.05. This implies an EPS growth rate of -126.24% for this year and 132.79% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 42.60 million HNRG shares are outstanding with a float of 28.17 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-29, short shares totaled 1.49 million, which was 350.99998 higher than short shares on 1730332800. In addition to Mr. Brent K. Bilsland as the firm’s President, CEO & Chairman, Mr. Heath A. Lovell serves as its President of Hallador Power Company.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.58483005 of HNRG’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, HNRG reported revenue of $105044000.0 and operating income of $4712000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $17878000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.04.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for HNRG since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With HNRG analysts setting a high price target of 17.0 and a low target of 13.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 15.0. Based on these targets, HNRG could surge 26.02% to reach the target high and fall by -3.63% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 11.19% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$0.29669 being high and -$0.36331 being low. For HNRG, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.33. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was -$0.08. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.02 and the low estimate is $0.02. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.02.