Vista Gold Corp. (AMEX: VGZ): Can The Stock Still Lose Despite An 79.27% YTD Gain?

Vista Gold Corp. (AMEX:VGZ)’s traded shares stood at 0.48 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.71. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $0.81, to imply an increase of 1.58% or $0.01 in intraday trading. The VGZ share’s 52-week high remains $0.83, putting it -2.47% down since that peak but still an impressive 62.96% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $0.30. The company has a valuation of $99.07M, with an average of 0.74 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 407.34K shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Vista Gold Corp. (VGZ), translating to a mean rating of 1.00. Of 1 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give VGZ a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 0 advise Hold as 1 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 0.

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Vista Gold Corp. (AMEX:VGZ) trade information

After registering a 1.58% upside in the last session, Vista Gold Corp. (VGZ) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 14.24%, and 46.23% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 79.27%. Short interest in Vista Gold Corp. (AMEX:VGZ) saw shorts transact 0.28 million shares and set a 0.77 days time to cover.

Vista Gold Corp. (VGZ) estimates and forecasts

Looking at statistics comparing Vista Gold Corp. share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has outperformed competitors. Vista Gold Corp. (VGZ) shares are 39.07% up over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate higher than industry average at 280.00% against 21.40%.

VGZ Dividends

Vista Gold Corp. has its next earnings report out in November. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.

Vista Gold Corp. (AMEX:VGZ)’s Major holders

Vista Gold Corp. insiders hold 2.89% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 27.19% of the shares at 28.00% float percentage. In total, 27.19% institutions holds shares in the company, led by SUN VALLEY GOLD LLC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 19.92 million shares (or 16.4353% of shares), all amounting to roughly $9.26 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is KOPERNIK GLOBAL INVESTORS, LLC with 3.94 million shares, or about 3.2525% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $1.83 million.