Hecla Mining Co (NYSE:HL) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, June 18, with the stock price down by -2.30% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $5.94.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $6.08, falling within a range of $5.91 and $6.0599. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.446 whereas the PE ratio was 53.47 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 20.24% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Hecla Mining Co currently standing at about $3.76 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-May-01. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.03, with its dividend yield at 0.59%.
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 1.31, with the price of HL currently trading nearly 3.68% and 7.98% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 56.53, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.01% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 3.09%. Furthermore, Hecla Mining Co (HL)’s beta value is 1.45, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.26.
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 -2.30% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 14.23%%.
Data on historical trading for Hecla Mining Co (NYSE:HL) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 25.2 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 21.69 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 632.44 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 7.57% of Hecla Mining Co’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 66.45% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 31.02 million shares as on 2025-05-30, resulting in a short ratio of 1.46. According to the data, the short interest in Hecla Mining Co (HL) stood at 552.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-05-30; the number of short shares registered in 2025-04-30 reached 30.0 million. The stock has risen by 20.98% 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.
