Factors to Note Before Buying Yamana Gold, Inc. (AUY)

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14 May, 2017

Zero analysts have made estimates for Yamana Gold's earnings.

Whereas they predicted High and Low Earnings Estimate as $0.04 and $-0.02 respectively. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.03 EPS. The business is scheduled to announce its next quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July 27th.

Yamana Gold, Inc. (AUY) has a market capitalization of 2.67 Billion which suggests the company is a huge company further suggesting that the shares of Yamana Gold, Inc. Cormark analyst R. Gray now expects that the company will earn $0.08 per share for the quarter, up from their previous forecast of $0.05. The company is set at a mean analysts' recommendation of 2.80.

Relative strength index (RSI-14) for Yamana Gold Inc. Market Cap is also the figure use to determine company's size, as opposed to using sales or total asset figures. The stock appeared -54.54% below its 52-week highs and is up 11.07% for the last five trades. Yamana Gold had a negative net margin of 97.73% and a positive return on equity of 0.89%.

As a reminder, the Brio Gold divestment story was long and the final outcome was rather odd, as Yamana Gold distributed Brio purchase rights to shareholders as dividend in kind and ended up still owning 85% of Brio Gold.

A number of other equities research analysts also recently weighed in on YRI. The 20-day may be of analytical benefit to a shorter-term trader since it follows the price more closely, and therefore produces less "lag" than the longer-term moving average. The company has price to cash ratio of 12.28.

Americas gold producer Yamana Gold (CN:YRI) has entered into a bought deal that will see it sell some 27 million shares in Brazil-focused spin-off company, Brio Gold (CN:BRIO), at C$3 (US$2.19) per share for gross proceeds of a touch over $88 million. Yamana Gold Inc. (USA) (NYSE:AUY) has declined 28.68% since October 5, 2016 and is downtrending. Two analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the company. Yamana Gold now has a consensus rating of "Hold" and an average target price of $4.36.

Yet another important factor while evaluating a good buy/sell decision for Yamana Gold, Inc. The company's stock had a trading volume of 9,009,403 shares. On Thursday, May 12 the stock rating was upgraded by BMO Capital Markets to "Outperform". Yamana Gold has a 12 month low of $2.40 and a 12 month high of $5.99.

The stock's 50 day moving average is 2.83 and its 200 day moving average is 3.04. Investors of record on Friday, June 30th will be paid a dividend of $0.005 per share. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, June 28th. The stock's quarterly performance represents pessimistic momentum of -38.05 percent.

12/12/2016 - Yamana Gold Inc. was upgraded to "outperform" by analysts at RBC Capital. Schroder Investment Management Group raised its stake in shares of Yamana Gold by 57.2% in the third quarter.

All things being equal, stocks with higher earnings-per-share growth rates are generally more desirable than those with slower earnings-per-share growth rates. (TSE:YRI) has "Sector Perform" rating given on Tuesday, September 1 by Scotia Capital. "Ultimately, through all this investigation into the company's performance the analyst decides whether their stock is a "buy", sell" or hold". Finally, Renaissance Technologies LLC acquired a new stake in Yamana Gold during the fourth quarter worth $20,269,000. Investors measure stock performance on the basis of a company's earnings power. "(AUY)" was originally reported by Transcript Daily and is owned by of Transcript Daily.

Brio Gold is a new Canadian mining company with significant gold producing, development and exploration stage properties in Brazil.


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