The trading price of Alamos Gold Inc. (NYSE:AGI) closed higher on Tuesday, May 23, closing at $12.87, 1.74% higher than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it fluctuated between $12.4817 and $12.94. The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period was 40.47, while its 5Y monthly beta was 1.03. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $14.12 and a 52-week low of $6.35. Over the past month, the stock has lost -0.39% in value.
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Alamos Gold Inc., whose market valuation is $6.84 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report Jul 25, 2023 – Jul 31, 2023. The dividend yield on the company stock is 1.07%, while its Forward Dividend ratio is 0.14. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable. Analysts have predicted the quarterly earnings per share to grow by $0.13 per share this quarter, however they have predicted annual earnings per share of $0.49 for 2023 and $0.51 for 2024. It means analysts are expecting annual earnings per share growth of 75.00% this year and 4.10% next year.
Analysts have forecast the company to bring in revenue of $248.56 million for the current quarter, with the likely lows of $238.49 million and highs of $267.83 million. The average estimate suggests sales will likely up by 30.00% this quarter compared to what was recorded in the comparable quarter last year. From the analysts’ viewpoint, the consensus estimate for the company’s annual revenue in 2023 is $986.01 million. The company’s revenue is forecast to grow by 20.10% over what it did in 2023.
A company’s earnings reviews provide a brief indication of a stock’s direction in the short term, where in the case of Alamos Gold Inc. 1 upward and no downward comments were posted in the last 7 days. On the technical side, indicators suggest AGI has a 50% Buy on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 100% Buy, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 100% Buy.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned AGI a recommendation rating is 12. Out of them, 7 rate it a Hold, while 5 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged Alamos Gold Inc. (AGI) as Underweight, while 0 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Overweight, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
A quick review shows that AGI’s price is currently -2.63% off the SMA20 and 1.88% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 47.32, and weekly volatility stands at 2.59%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 2.96%. Alamos Gold Inc. (NYSE:AGI)’s beta value is currently sitting at 1.03, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 0.39. With analysts defining $10.00-$17.63 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $14.38 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about 22.3% off the estimated low and -36.99% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if AGI’s share price rises to $14.46, which is the median consensus price. At that level, AGI’s share price would be -12.35% below current price.
To see how Alamos Gold Inc. stock has been performing in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: AGI stock’s performance was 1.74% in the latest trading, and 71.83% in the past year, while Kellogg Company (K) has traded 0.28% on the day and positioned 1.17% higher than it was a year ago. Another comparable company Barrick Gold Corporation (GOLD) saw its stock close -0.22% lower in the most recent trading session but was down -13.25% in a year. Furthermore, New Gold Inc. (NGD) showed a decrease of -3.85% on the day while its price kept declining at -4.58% over the past year. Alamos Gold Inc. has a P/E ratio of 40.47, compared to Kellogg Company’s 24.42 and Barrick Gold Corporation’s 290.98. Also in last trading session, the S&P 500 Index has plunged -1.12%, while the Dow Jones Industrial also saw a negative session, down -0.69% on the day.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Alamos Gold Inc. (NYSE:AGI) indicates that the 3-month average is 3.34 million. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 2.45 million.
Currently, records show that 396.95 million of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 0.29% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 67.36%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of Apr 27, 2023, stood at 7.43 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 2.33 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 1.88% of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in April were up slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 6.39 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen 27.30% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even higher.
