Why Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE: GOLD) Stock Should Not Be Discarded By Investors In 2024

In today’s recent session, 5.09 million shares of the Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE:GOLD) have been traded, and its beta is 0.55. Most recently the company’s share price was $20.00, and it changed around -$0.28 or -1.38% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $35.05B. GOLD at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $21.35, offering almost -6.75% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $13.76, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 31.2% since then. We note from Barrick Gold Corp.’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 22.39 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 19.69 million.

Barrick Gold Corp. stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Overweight, based on a mean score of 1.82. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 4 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 2 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 1 recommended GOLD as a Hold, whereas 1 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Barrick Gold Corp. is expected to report earnings per share of 0.31 for the current quarter.

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Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE:GOLD) trade information

Instantly GOLD has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -1.38% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 21.01 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 4.81%. The company’s shares are currently up 10.56% year-to-date, but still down -3.85% over the last five days. On the other hand, Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE:GOLD) is -1.48% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 11.04 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 0.6 day(s).

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $26, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 23.08% from its current value. Analyst projections state that GOLD is forecast to be at a low of $20 and a high of $31.

Barrick Gold Corp. (GOLD) estimates and forecasts

Barrick Gold Corp. share prices are performing particularly well compared to other companies within the same industry. As is evident from the statistics, the company’s shares have risen 22.25 percent over the past six months and at a 53.57% annual growth rate that is well above the industry average of 21.30%. Moreover, analysts have decided to roll up on their fiscal year 2024 revenue estimates. The rating firms predict that it will gain 29.20% in revenue this quarter, and will report an increase of 66.70% in the next quarter. The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 14.80%, up from the previous year.

Consensus estimates provided by 4 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 3.42B in revenue for the current quarter. 4 analysts expect Barrick Gold Corp. to make 4.29B in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 2.86B and 3.06B respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 19.40%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 40.20%.

Barrick Gold Corp. earnings are expected to increase by 54.20% in 2024, but the outlook is positive 32.86% per year for the next five years.

GOLD Dividends

Barrick Gold Corp.’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2024-Nov-07. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 2.00 percent and its annual dividend per share was 0.40. It is important to note, however, that the 2.00% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 2.14 per year.

Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE:GOLD)’s Major holders

Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.60% of Barrick Gold Corp. shares, and 62.09% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 62.47%. Barrick Gold Corp. stock is held by 1146.0 institutions, with VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 4.4086% of the shares, which is about 77.41 million shares worth $1.29 billion.

VANGUARD GROUP INC, with 3.7601% or 66.03 million shares worth $1.1 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.