Is Uranium Energy Corp (AMEX: UEC) A Disaster Waiting To Happen Or Is It A Chance To Make Money?

In the latest trading session,, 2.34 million Uranium Energy Corp (AMEX:UEC) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.40. With the company’s most recent per share price at $4.00 changing hands around $0.0 or -0.08% at last look, the market valuation stands at $1.71B. UEC’s current price is a discount, trading about -123.25% off its 52-week high of $8.93. The share price had its 52-week low at $3.85, which suggests the last value was 3.75% up since then. When we look at Uranium Energy Corp’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 9.46 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 8.27 million.

Analysts gave the Uranium Energy Corp (UEC) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.00. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 1 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended UEC as a Hold, 1 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Uranium Energy Corp’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.

Uranium Energy Corp (AMEX:UEC) trade information

Instantly UEC was in red as seen in intraday trades today. With action -15.14%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -40.26%, with the 5-day performance at -15.14% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Uranium Energy Corp (AMEX:UEC) is -21.01% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 47.82 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 5.09 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 10.5, meaning bulls need an upside of 61.9% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, UEC’s forecast low is 10.5 with 10.5 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -162.5% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -162.5% for it to hit the projected low.

Uranium Energy Corp (UEC) estimates and forecasts

Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 40,712.50% up from the last financial year.

1 analysts are of the opinion that Uranium Energy Corp’s revenue for the current quarter will be 28.5M. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 0.00%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 0.00%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 5.49%. The 2025 estimates are for Uranium Energy Corp earnings to decrease by -27.31%.

Uranium Energy Corp (AMEX:UEC)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 1.92% of Uranium Energy Corp shares while 77.95% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 79.48%. There are 77.95% institutions holding the Uranium Energy Corp stock share, with MMCAP INTERNATIONAL INC. SPC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 7.9459% of the shares, roughly 31.57 million UEC shares worth $189.73 million.

BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 7.2977% or 28.99 million shares worth $174.26 million as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Mar 31, 2025 were GLOBAL X FUNDS-Global X Uranium ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . With 24.95 shares estimated at $98.91 million under it, the former controlled 5.82% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held about 3.08% of the shares, roughly 13.2 shares worth around $52.32 million.