Hecla Mining Co (NYSE:HL) has a beta value of 1.44 and has seen 9.97 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $3.58B, closed the recent trade at $5.66 per share which meant it gained $0.52 on the day or 10.05% during that session. The HL stock price is -35.69% off its 52-week high price of $7.68 and 22.08% 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 13.95 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 21.66 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Hecla Mining Co (HL) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.89. 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
Over the past 30 days, the shares of Hecla Mining Co (NYSE:HL) have changed 3.41%. Short interest in the company has seen 27.73 million shares shorted with days to cover at 1.19.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $5.25, which means that the shares’ value could drop -7.81% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $5.0 while the price target rests at a high of $5.5. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is 2.83% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 11.66% from the levels at last check today..
Hecla Mining Co (HL) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 4.17% over the past 6 months.
Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 89.77% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 37.19%.
HL Dividends
Hecla Mining Co is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Apr-30 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 0.62%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 0.51%.
Hecla Mining Co (NYSE:HL)’s Major holders
Insiders own 6.26% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 69.61% with a share float percentage of 74.26%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Hecla Mining Co having a total of 536.0 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 Apr 30, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 3.40% shares in the company for having 21.49 shares of worth $122.37 million while later fund manager owns 19.11 shares of worth $108.81 million as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 3.02% of company’s outstanding stock.
