With 0.65 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.68 million shares. During the session, the Gold company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $1.165 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $1.09. The 52-week range on GAU shows that it touched its highest point at $2.00 and its lowest point at $0.80 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $2.26. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.05.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Three-month performance dropped to -36.31% while six-month performance fell -34.86%. The stock gained 31.03% in the past year, while it has lost -7.32% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GAU yields -0.01 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.42. For the next quarter, that number is 0.04. This implies an EPS growth rate of 180.00% for this year and 49.45% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 256.94 million GAU shares are outstanding with a float of 195.62 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 1.25 million, which was 49.0 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. Matt Badylak as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Matthew Freeman A.C.A. serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.58154 of GAU’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, GAU reported revenue of $71130000.0 and operating income of $22316000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $31992000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.004198.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for GAU since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.15894 being high and $0.07946875 being low. For GAU, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.12715. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.06 and the low estimate is $0.03. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.05.
