With 0.15 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.34 million shares. During the session, the Paper & Paper Products company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $6.61 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $6.4. The 52-week range on MERC shows that it touched its highest point at $11.20 and its lowest point at $5.33 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $7.12. With its current market cap of 431.32 million, MERC has annualized dividend of $0.30 while the current yield stands at 4.65%. MERC paid its most recent dividend on 1734480000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1734480000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.31.
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 MERC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.06%, but this was down by -0.92% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -7.99% while six-month performance fell -19.48%. The stock lost -27.69% in the past year, while it has lost -0.77% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for MERC yields -2.84 with Next year EPS estimates of -0.16. For the next quarter, that number is 0.04. This implies an EPS growth rate of 71.93% for this year and 84.43% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 66.87 million MERC shares are outstanding with a float of 38.21 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 0.38 million, which was 55.99999999999999 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Juan Carlos Bueno as the firm’s CEO, President & Director, Mr. Jimmy S. H. Lee B.Sc. serves as its Chairman Emeritus.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.56403 of MERC’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, MERC reported revenue of $502141000.0 and operating income of $8841000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $50364000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.26.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for MERC since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 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 MERC analysts setting a high price target of 7.5 and a low target of 7.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 7.125. Based on these targets, MERC could surge 16.28% to reach the target high and rise by 8.53% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 10.47% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$0.99985 being high and -$1.05091 being low. For MERC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$1.02442. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is -$0.05 and the low estimate is -$0.05. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.05.
