With 4.95 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 5.02 million shares. During the session, the Gold company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $17.28 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $16.92. 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 $16.12. With its current market cap of 10.69 billion, HMY has annualized dividend of $0.17 while the current yield stands at 1.01%. HMY paid its most recent dividend on 1744329600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1760054400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.77.
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 14.92%, but this was up by 13.70% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 23.51% while six-month performance rose 36.78%. The stock gained 109.26% in the past year, while it has gained 63.46% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HMY yields 1.26 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.68. For the next quarter, that number is 0.91. This implies an EPS growth rate of 87.28% for this year and 7.56% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
On 2025-08-29, short shares totaled 7.5 million, which was 120.0 higher than short shares on 1753920000. 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.
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 16.0 and a low target of 14.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 15.00341. Based on these targets, HMY could drop -6.87% to reach the target high and fall by -15.6% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -12.67% 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 $1.2026 being high and $0.93618 being low. For HMY, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.06977.
