With 4.32 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.68 million shares. During the session, the Gold company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $25.31 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $24.57. The 52-week range on AGI shows that it touched its highest point at $24.66 and its lowest point at $13.06 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $27.47. With its current market cap of 10.46 billion, AGI has annualized dividend of $0.12 while the current yield stands at 0.50%. AGI paid its most recent dividend on 1726099200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741824000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.08.
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 AGI was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.10%, but this was up by 10.63% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 27.28% while six-month performance rose 32.99%. The stock gained 80.74% in the past year, while it has gained 34.87% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AGI yields 0.69 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.32. For the next quarter, that number is 0.26. This implies an EPS growth rate of 54.17% for this year and 5.61% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 21.49% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 23.11%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 420.37 million AGI shares are outstanding with a float of 419.07 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 3.82 million, which was 91.0 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. John A. McCluskey as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Greg Fisher B.Comm, CPA, CA serves as its Chief Financial Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.73168 of AGI’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 2024-12-31, AGI reported revenue of $375800000.0 and operating income of $158400000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $237600000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for AGI since 8 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 7 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. With AGI analysts setting a high price target of 27.0 and a low target of 25.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 26.0. Based on these targets, AGI could surge 8.56% to reach the target high and rise by 0.52% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 4.54% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.8237 being high and $0.76486 being low. For AGI, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.79428. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.32 and the low estimate is $0.24. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.28.
