Vista Gold Corp (AMEX:VGZ) concluded the trading at $0.73 on Friday, March 14 with a fall of -3.55% from its closing price on previous day.
Taking a look at stock we notice that its last check on previous day was $0.76 and 5Y monthly beta was reading 1.725 with its price kept floating in the range of $0.7201 and $0.7699 on the day. Company’s P/E ratio for the trailing 12 months is 8.21. Considering stock’s 52-week price range provides that VGZ hit a high price of $0.83 and saw its price falling to a low level of $0.45 during that period. Over a period of past 1-month, stock came adding 7.89% in its value.
With its current market valuation of $90.37 million, Vista Gold Corp is set to declare its quarterly results in April. Analysts are in estimates of 0 per share for company’s earnings in the current quarter and are expecting its annual EPS growth moving up to -0.06 for current year with estimates of that growing to 0 in next year.
In contrast, when we review VGZ stock’s current outlook then short term indicators are assigning it an average of 100% Buy, while medium term indicators are categorizing the stock at an average of 100% Buy. Long term indicators are suggesting an average of 100% Buy for it.
According to ratings assigned by 1 analysts at the scale of 1 to 5 with 1.00 representing a strong buy and 5.00 suggesting a strong sell; 0 of them are recommending Vista Gold Corp (VGZ) 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 0, 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 VGZ stock which is currently positioned at 0. It further provides that stock’s current price level is 7.36% away from its 20-day simple moving average and is 14.42% off its SMA50. Its relative strength index (RSI) for 14-periods is oscillating at 58.19 while volatility remained at 6.82% over the past week which changes to 5.36% when measuring it over the past month. Beta is valued at 1.54, while measure of average true range or ATR is currently at 0.04.
Having a second look at Vista Gold Corp (AMEX:VGZ) provides that stock’s average daily trading volume for 3 months was 368.52K, while it jumped to 787850 when we calculate an average volume for past 10 days. Number of outstanding shares of the stock stood at 123.55 million.
The percentage of outstanding shares held by the insiders is 3.14% while it is 27.32% for the institutional holders. The figures also indicate that as of 2025-02-28, number of stock’s short shares was 4788.0 which implies a short ratio of 0.02. This shows down a 0.00 of Short Interest in company’s outstanding shares on the day. In February the standing of shares short improved as it was 51076.0 in the previous month. Addition of 30.88% by stock’s current price to its year-to-date value in last trading session is likely to be increasing investors’ interest in the stock as it is hinting an extended uptrend.
