Kinross Gold Corp. (NYSE: KGC) Defies Bearish Expectations and Displays Strong Future Potential

In the last trading session, 14.63 million Kinross Gold Corp. (NYSE:KGC) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.24. With the company’s per share price at $10.54 changed hands at -$0.07 or -0.66% during last session, the market valuation stood at $12.95B. KGC’s last price was a discount, traded about -0.95% off its 52-week high of $10.64. The share price had its 52-week low at $4.75, which suggests the last value was 54.93% up since then. When we look at Kinross Gold Corp.’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 11.71 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 15.21 million.

Analysts gave the Kinross Gold Corp. (KGC) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.06. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 1 out of 7 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 2 recommended KGC as a Hold, 4 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Kinross Gold Corp.’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.17.

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Kinross Gold Corp. (NYSE:KGC) trade information

Instantly KGC was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 6.90%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 74.21%, with the 5-day performance at 6.90% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Kinross Gold Corp. (NYSE:KGC) is 10.25% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 8.64 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 0.49 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 9.55, meaning bulls need a downside of -10.37% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, KGC’s forecast low is 4 with 12 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -13.85% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 62.05% for it to hit the projected low.

Kinross Gold Corp. (KGC) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Kinross Gold Corp. share is performing relatively much better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 62.91% over the past 6 months, a 38.64% in annual growth rate that is considerably higher than the industry average of 22.20%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 15.50% up from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 1 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 1.31B. 1 analysts are of the opinion that Kinross Gold Corp.’s revenue for the current quarter will be 1.52B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 1.09B and 1.12B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 19.80%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 36.10%.

The 2024 estimates are for Kinross Gold Corp. earnings to increase by 52.63%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 29.70% per year.

KGC Dividends

Kinross Gold Corp. is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2024-Nov-05. The 1.14% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 0.12. It is important to note, however, that the 1.14% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 1.24 per year.

Kinross Gold Corp. (NYSE:KGC)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.26% of Kinross Gold Corp. shares while 65.05% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 65.22%. There are 65.05% institutions holding the Kinross Gold Corp. stock share, with VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 9.8682% of the shares, roughly 121.21 million KGC shares worth $1.01 billion.

VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 3.7455% or 46.0 million shares worth $382.76 million as of 2024-06-30.