An analyst sees good growth prospects for Geopark Limited (GPRK)

With 0.61 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.5 million shares. During the session, the Oil & Gas E&P company that operates in wider Energy sector, reached to the highest price of $10.9867 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $10.27. The 52-week range on GPRK shows that it touched its highest point at $11.72 and its lowest point at $7.24 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $15.92. With its current market cap of 548.29 million, GPRK has annualized dividend of $0.58 while the current yield stands at 5.60%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.33.

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 GPRK was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 17.03%, but this was down by -5.15% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 22.01% while six-month performance fell -3.37%. The stock gained 14.94% in the past year, while it has gained 11.22% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GPRK yields 1.96 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.01. For the next quarter, that number is 0.73. This implies an EPS growth rate of 12.76% for this year and 33.55% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 51.19 million GPRK shares are outstanding with a float of 37.49 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 0.76 million, which was 148.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Andrés Ocampo as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. James Franklin Park serves as its Co-Founder & Vice Chair.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.45731 of GPRK’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, GPRK reported revenue of $159504000.0 and operating income of $65941000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $98936000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.48.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for GPRK 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 GPRK analysts setting a high price target of 26.0 and a low target of 11.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 15.78571. Based on these targets, GPRK could surge 152.18% to reach the target high and rise by 6.69% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 53.11% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.51334 being high and $2.24339 being low. For GPRK, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.38302.