Cameco Corp (NYSE:CCJ)’s traded shares stood at 1.1 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.88. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $47.15, to imply an increase of 3.60% or $1.64 in intraday trading. The CCJ share’s 52-week high remains $62.55, putting it -32.66% down since that peak but still an impressive 25.77% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $35.00. The company has a valuation of $20.52B, with an average of 3.24 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 4.09 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Cameco Corp (CCJ), translating to a mean rating of 1.24. Of 5 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give CCJ a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 0 advise Hold as 5 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 0.3.
Cameco Corp (NYSE:CCJ) trade information
After registering a 3.60% upside in the latest session, Cameco Corp (CCJ) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 7.18%, and 11.02% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -8.25%. Short interest in Cameco Corp (NYSE:CCJ) saw shorts transact 18.24 million shares and set a 4.63 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $30.23840614 and $55 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, CCJ has been trading -16.65% off suggested target high and 35.87% from its likely low.
Cameco Corp (CCJ) estimates and forecasts
The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 7.79% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 3 analysts is 826.4M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 3 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 736.46M.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 598.46M and 720.6M respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 38.09% before jumping 2.20% in the following quarter.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 15.41% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a 89.33% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 58.02% annually.
CCJ Dividends
Cameco Corp has its next earnings report out on 2025-Apr-30. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Cameco Corp has a forward dividend ratio of 0.11, with the share yield ticking at 0.24% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 0.31%.
Cameco Corp (NYSE:CCJ)’s Major holders
Cameco Corp insiders hold 0.14% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 73.78% of the shares at 73.89% float percentage. In total, 73.78% institutions holds shares in the company, led by FMR LLC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 37.72 million shares (or 8.3801% of shares), all amounting to roughly $1.86 billion.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS LTD. with 17.24 million shares, or about 3.8291% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $847.84 million.
We also have GLOBAL X FUNDS-Global X Uranium ETF and CAPITAL WORLD GROWTH & INCOME FUND as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Cameco Corp (CCJ) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , GLOBAL X FUNDS-Global X Uranium ETF holds roughly 14.3 shares. This is just over 3.28% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $675.25 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 11.37, or 2.61% of the shares, all valued at about 537.08 million.
