Hecla Mining Co (NYSE:HL) shares, rose in value, with the stock price down by -0.77% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $5.84.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $5.88, falling within a range of $5.75 and $6.01. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 1.935 whereas the PE ratio is 103.64 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $7.68, and the low was $4.41. On the whole, HL has fluctuated by 15.09% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Hecla Mining Co currently standing at about $3.69 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-12. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.03, with its dividend yield at 0.60%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 971.16M, with a low estimate of 238.5M and a high estimate of 238.5M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 238.5M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that HL’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of Hold while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.99, with the price of HL currently trading nearly 3.66% and 4.02% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 55.98, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 4.08% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 4.86%. Furthermore, Hecla Mining Co (HL)’s beta value is 1.77, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.27.
A comparison of Hecla Mining Co (HL) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. HL showed an intraday change of -0.77% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 38.00%%.
Data on historical trading for Hecla Mining Co (NYSE:HL) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 17.88 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 18.95 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 631.73 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 6.35% of Hecla Mining Co’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 66.87% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 24.79 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 1.04. According to the data, the short interest in Hecla Mining Co (HL) stood at 397.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 16.05 million. The stock has risen by 18.84% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the HL stock heading into the next quarter.
