Hecla Mining Co (NYSE:HL) has a beta value of 1.45 and has seen 2.57 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $3.76B, closed the recent trade at $5.95 per share which meant it gained $0.01 on the day or 0.08% during that session. The HL stock price is -29.08% off its 52-week high price of $7.68 and 25.88% above the 52-week low of $4.41. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 24.27 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 20.96 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Hecla Mining Co (HL) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.60. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 1 out of 6 have rated it as a Hold, with 5 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight.
Hecla Mining Co (NYSE:HL) trade information
Sporting 0.08% in the green today, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the HL stock price touched $5.95 or saw a rise of 4.19%. Year-to-date, Hecla Mining Co shares have moved 21.08%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 1.45%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Hecla Mining Co (NYSE:HL) have changed 3.21%. Short interest in the company has seen 24.66 million shares shorted with days to cover at 1.14.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $6.25, which means that the shares’ value could jump 4.8% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $5.0 while the price target rests at a high of $7.5. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -26.05% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 15.97% from the levels at last check today..
Hecla Mining Co (HL) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have lost -11.14% over the past 6 months.
Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 81.82% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 34.89%.
HL Dividends
Hecla Mining Co is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Feb-12 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 0.03 at a share yield of 0.59%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 0.5%.
Hecla Mining Co (NYSE:HL)’s Major holders
Insiders own 6.26% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 68.39% with a share float percentage of 72.96%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Hecla Mining Co having a total of 518.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 59.48 million shares worth more than $288.48 million. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 9.6386% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP, with the holding of over 52.44 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $254.34 million and represent 8.498% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck Gold Miners ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 3.59% shares in the company for having 22.68 shares of worth $135.07 million while later fund manager owns 18.8 shares of worth $111.98 million as of Dec 31, 2024 , which makes it owner of about 2.97% of company’s outstanding stock.
