It makes sense and dollars to buy Hallador Energy Co (HNRG) stock

With 0.69 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier 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 $10.63 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $9.6984. 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 0.65.

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 down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -18.64%, but this was down by -5.46% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 2.62% while six-month performance rose 35.21%. The stock gained 20.96% in the past year, while it has lost -7.77% 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 -0.06. This implies an EPS growth rate of -126.40% for this year and 133.33% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -3.74% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 38.25%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 42.60 million HNRG shares are outstanding with a float of 28.22 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 1.82 million, which was 426.00001999999995 higher than short shares on 1734048000. 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 0.58171004 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 60.98% to reach the target high and rise by 23.11% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 42.05% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$0.28512 being high and -$0.37488 being low. For HNRG, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.33.