Cameco Corp (NYSE:CCJ) has a beta value of 0.98 and has seen 1.51 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $31.22B, closed the recent trade at $71.72 per share which meant it gained $2.0 on the day or 2.87%% during that session. The CCJ stock price is 0.57% off its 52-week high price of $71.31 and 51.2% above the 52-week low of $35.00. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 7.45 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 4.96 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Cameco Corp (CCJ) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.35. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 0 out of 5 have rated it as a Hold, with 5 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight.
Cameco Corp (NYSE:CCJ) trade information
Sporting 2.87%% 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 CCJ stock price touched $71.72 or saw a rise of 0.08%. Year-to-date, Cameco Corp shares have moved 37.34%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 3.40%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Cameco Corp (NYSE:CCJ) have changed 35.81%. Short interest in the company has seen 18.54 million shares shorted with days to cover at 3.3.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $70, which means that the shares’ value could drop -2.46% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $70.0 while the price target rests at a high of $70.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is 2.4% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 2.4% from the levels at last check today..
Cameco Corp (CCJ) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 38.11% over the past 6 months.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was 15.41% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 122.21% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 57.00%.
CCJ Dividends
Cameco Corp is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-May-01 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 0.11 at a share yield of 0.16%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 0.3%.
Cameco Corp (NYSE:CCJ)’s Major holders
Insiders own 0.14% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 73.54% with a share float percentage of 73.64%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Cameco Corp having a total of 1091.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are FMR LLC with over 37.72 million shares worth more than $1.86 billion. As of 2024-06-30, FMR LLC held 8.3801% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS LTD., with the holding of over 17.24 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $847.84 million and represent 3.8291% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are GLOBAL X FUNDS-Global X Uranium ETF and CAPITAL WORLD GROWTH & INCOME FUND . As of May 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 2.86% shares in the company for having 12.44 shares of worth $891.23 million while later fund manager owns 11.37 shares of worth $814.7 million as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 2.61% of company’s outstanding stock.
