In the latest trading session, 14.0 million B2gold Corp (AMEX:BTG) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.91. With the company’s most recent per share price at $3.30 changing hands around $0.07 or 2.01% at last look, the market valuation stands at $4.34B. BTG’s current price is a discount, trading about -6.06% off its 52-week high of $3.50. The share price had its 52-week low at $2.20, which suggests the last value was 33.33% up since then. When we look at B2gold Corp’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 45.61 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 30.90 million.

Analysts gave the B2gold Corp (BTG) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.00. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 6 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended BTG as a Hold, 5 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. B2gold Corp’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.08.

B2gold Corp (AMEX:BTG) trade information

Instantly BTG is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 22.04%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 35.04%, with the 5-day performance at 22.04% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, B2gold Corp (AMEX:BTG) is 29.72% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 54.56 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 1.56 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 4.05, meaning bulls need an upside of 18.52% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, BTG’s forecast low is 3.6 with 4.5 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -36.36% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -9.09% for it to hit the projected low.

B2gold Corp (BTG) estimates and forecasts

Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 44.34% 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 538M. 1 analysts are of the opinion that B2gold Corp’s revenue for the current quarter will be 591.8M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 461.44M and 492.57M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 16.59%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 20.15%.

BTG Dividends

B2gold Corp is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-18. The 4.25% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 0.14. It is important to note, however, that the 4.25% 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 4.04 per year.

B2gold Corp (AMEX:BTG)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.43% of B2gold Corp shares while 61.72% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 61.99%. There are 61.72% institutions holding the B2gold Corp stock share, with VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 9.0357% of the shares, roughly 118.11 million BTG shares worth $318.88 million.

FMR LLC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 4.5174% or 59.05 million shares worth $158.41 million as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Jan 31, 2025 were VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF and VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck Gold Miners ETF. With 88.73 shares estimated at $294.15 million under it, the former controlled 6.73% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck Gold Miners ETF held about 3.99% of the shares, roughly 52.57 shares worth around $174.28 million.