First Majestic Silver Corp. (NYSE:AG) at last check was buoying at $5.85 on Friday, September 15, with a rise of 4.64% from its closing price on previous day.
Taking a look at stock we notice that its last check on previous day was $5.59 with its price kept floating in the range of $5.47 and $5.69 on the day. Considering stock’s 52-week price range provides that AG hit a high price of $9.81 and saw its price falling to a low level of $5.24 during that period. Over a period of past 1-month, stock came adding 1.03% in its value.
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With its current market valuation of $1.68 billion. Analysts are in estimates of $0.03 per share for company’s earnings in the current quarter and are expecting its annual EPS growth moving up to $0.05 for 2023 with estimates of that growing to $0.41 in next year. These estimates are suggesting current year growth of 123.80% for EPS and 720.00% growth next year.
In keeping analyst consensus estimate with, company is forecasted to be making an annual revenue of $621.3 million in 2023, which will be -0.50% less from revenue generated by the company last year.
In last 7 days, analysts came adjusting their opinions about stock’s EPS with no upward and no downward revisions, an indication which could give clearer idea about the company’s short term price movement. In contrast, when we review AG stock’s current outlook then short term indicators are assigning it an average of 50% Sell, while medium term indicators are categorizing the stock at an average of 50% Sell. Long term indicators are suggesting an average of 100% Sell for it.
According to ratings assigned by 6 analysts at the scale of 1 to 5 with 1.00 representing a strong buy and 5.00 suggesting a strong sell; 4 of them are recommending First Majestic Silver Corp. (AG) as a Hold, while 1 are in view that stock is a Buy. Recommendation by 0 analysts for the stock is an Underweight while number of those analysts who rated the stock as an Overweight is 1, whereas 0 of them are considering the stock as a Sell. When taken as whole, stock gets a rating of Overweight and that encourages the investors to exploit the opportunity and build their stake up in the company.
Digging deeper we become aware of the PEG ratio of the AG stock which is currently positioned at 0. It further provides that stock’s current price level is -0.08% away from its 20-day simple moving average and is -4.29% off its SMA50. Its relative strength index (RSI) for 14-periods is oscillating at 49.47 while volatility remained at 3.20% over the past week which changes to 3.29% when measuring it over the past month. Beta is valued at 1.12, while measure of average true range or ATR is currently at 0.21. In predicting price targets of as low as $6.10 and as high as $12.00, analysts are in agreement on assigning the stock over the next 12 months average price target of $8.54. Stock’s current price level is -4.27% above from estimated low price target while it is -105.13% below the estimated high; and even if the AG’s share succeeded to reach the median price of $7.91, then the outlook of -35.21% could come to the excitement of the investors.
In comparing First Majestic Silver Corp. (AG)’s stock with other industry players reveals that stock’s latest price change of 4.64% and that of -26.14% over the past 12 months is in competing position with that of Hecla Mining Company (HL) which saw its stock price raised by 5.02% in the recent trading and went through an increase of 7.24% in past 12-month trading. Industry’s another major player Endeavour Silver Corp. (EXK) has rise 3.21% up in latest trading session, but over the past year has faced afall of -10.91%, while Pan American Silver Corp. (PAAS) was also up 3.86% however its price remained floating in the green at 4.89% over the same period. First Majestic Silver Corp. has a P/E ratio of 0 while Endeavour Silver Corp. is showing 45.58 for the same. On the other hand, the S&P 500 Index is down -0.87% in the early deals today while the Dow Jones Industrial was dealinglower at -0.50%.
Having a second look at First Majestic Silver Corp. (NYSE:AG) provides that stock’s average daily trading volume for 3 months was 4.25 million, while it jumped to 3.23 million when we calculate an average volume for past 10 days. Number of outstanding shares of the stock stood at 286.87 million.
The percentage of outstanding shares held by the insiders is 2.29% while it is 35.99% for the institutional holders. The figures also indicate that as of Aug 14, 2023, number of stock’s short shares was 17.04 million which implies a short ratio of 3.53. This shows up a 5.94% of Short Interest in company’s outstanding shares on the day. In August the standing of shares short improved as it was 16.23 million in the previous month. Subtraction of -29.86% by stock’s current price to its year-to-date value in today’s trading is likely to be increasing investors’ interest in the stock as it is hinting an extended uptrend.
