With 22.96 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 18.06 million shares. During the session, the Other Precious Metals & Mining company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $6.07 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $5.85. The 52-week range on HL shows that it touched its highest point at $7.68 and its lowest point at $4.04 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $7.42. With its current market cap of 3.72 billion, HL has annualized dividend of $0.04 while the current yield stands at 0.64%. HL paid its most recent dividend on 1741564800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741564800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.76.
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 HL was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 8.29%, but this was up by 8.09% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 6.33% while six-month performance fell -13.78%. The stock gained 36.17% in the past year, while it has gained 19.76% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HL yields 0.06 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.36. For the next quarter, that number is 0.05. This implies an EPS growth rate of 93.18% for this year and 67.26% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 631.73 million HL shares are outstanding with a float of 591.71 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 23.96 million, which was 379.00000000000006 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. Russell D. Lawlar as the firm’s Senior VP & CFO, Mr. Michael L. Clary serves as its Senior VP & Chief Administrative Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.68903 of HL’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, HL reported revenue of $249655000.0 and operating income of $50976000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $92687000.0 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 HL since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 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 HL analysts setting a high price target of 11.5 and a low target of 5.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 7.41667. Based on these targets, HL could surge 95.58% to reach the target high and fall by -6.46% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 26.13% 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 $0.17965 being high and $0.02994167 being low. For HL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.089825. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.08 and the low estimate is $0.07. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.07.
