In today’s recent session, 14.1 million shares of the B2gold Corp (AMEX:BTG) have been traded, and its beta is 0.96. Most recently the company’s share price was $3.14, and it changed around -$0.03 or -0.95% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $4.14B. BTG at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $3.50, offering almost -11.46% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $2.20, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 29.94% since then. We note from B2gold Corp’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 47.74 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 33.59 million.
B2gold Corp stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Overweight, based on a mean score of 2.00. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 13 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 6 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 4 recommended BTG as a Hold, whereas 2 deemed it a Buy, and 1 rated it as Underweight. B2gold Corp is expected to report earnings per share of 0.08 for the current quarter.
B2gold Corp (AMEX:BTG) trade information
Instantly BTG has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -0.95% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 3.26 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 3.68%. The company’s shares are currently up 28.68% year-to-date, but still down -4.85% over the last five days. On the other hand, B2gold Corp (AMEX:BTG) is 10.95% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 54.07 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 1.56 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $4.5, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 30.22% from its current value. Analyst projections state that BTG is forecast to be at a low of $4.5 and a high of $4.5.
B2gold Corp (BTG) estimates and forecasts
The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 44.34%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 1 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 538M in revenue for the current quarter. 1 analysts expect B2gold Corp to make 591.8M in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 461.44M and 492.57M respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 16.59%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 20.15%.
B2gold Corp earnings are expected to increase by 152.07% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 40.15% per year for the next five years.
BTG Dividends
B2gold Corp’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Feb-18. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 4.46 percent and its annual dividend per share was 0.14. It is important to note, however, that the 4.46% 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 4.04 per year.
B2gold Corp (AMEX:BTG)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.43% of B2gold Corp shares, and 61.81% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 62.07%. B2gold Corp stock is held by 390.0 institutions, with VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 9.0357% of the shares, which is about 118.11 million shares worth $318.88 million.
FMR LLC, with 4.5174% or 59.05 million shares worth $158.41 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF and VanEck Gold Miners ETF were the top two Mutual Funds as of Feb 28, 2025. The former held 85.15 shares worth $267.79 million, making up 6.46% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VanEck Gold Miners ETF held roughly 48.77 shares worth around $153.38 million, which represents about 3.70% of the total shares outstanding.
