With 3.39 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 6.2 million shares. During the session, the Gold company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $14.59 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $14.26. The 52-week range on HMY shows that it touched its highest point at $18.77 and its lowest point at $7.97 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $14.37. With its current market cap of 8.95 billion, HMY has annualized dividend of $0.17 while the current yield stands at 1.21%. HMY paid its most recent dividend on 1728604800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1744329600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.98.
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 HMY was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.21%, but this was down by -2.51% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 13.86% while six-month performance rose 60.67%. The stock gained 70.78% in the past year, while it has gained 75.15% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HMY yields 0.92 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.48.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 622.18 million HMY shares are outstanding with a float of 621.73 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-05-30, short shares totaled 6.14 million, which was 99.00000000000001 higher than short shares on 1745971200. In addition to Mr. Beyers B. Nel BEng, BSc, MBA as the firm’s Group CEO & Executive Director, Ms. Boipelo Pride Lekubo BComm, BComm (UCT), CA(SA) serves as its Financial Director & Executive Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.23826 of HMY’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for HMY since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 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 HMY analysts setting a high price target of 16.11534 and a low target of 15.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 15.80767. Based on these targets, HMY could surge 12.07% to reach the target high and rise by 7.79% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 9.93% 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 $1.16061 being high and $0.92281 being low. For HMY, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.06977.
