20 June, 2017
The stock has shown weekly performance of 0.05% and monthly performance stands at 3.65%. The stock remained 6.46% unpredictable for the week and 4.69% for the month.
An earnings forecast is an analyst's outlook for a company's future quarterly or annual earnings. The company closed it trading session at $1.68. Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (HMY) 52 week low value is at $1.68 and its current distance from 52 week low value is -0.6%. Consensus earnings estimates are far from flawless, but they are watched by many investors and play an important role in measuring the appropriate valuation for a stock. Its book value per share for the most recent quarter is $5.47 while its price to book ratio for the same period is 0.31, as for as the company's cash per share for the most recent quarter is $0.2, however its price to cash per share ratio for the same period is 8.26.
The stock being overvalued and undervalued sometimes depends upon the market situation as well. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell recommendation and five have given a hold recommendation to the company. The Higher end of the revenue forecast is $1.49 Billion, while the Lower end of the forecast is $1.47 Billion.
As of quarter end Schroder Investment Management Group had acquired a total of 105,124 shares growing its holdings by 2.9%.
A price target is the projected price level of a financial security stated by an investment analyst.
Analyst's mean target price for stock is $14.55 while analysts mean suggestion is 3.40.
In terms of Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (HMY) stock price comparison to its moving averages, shares of company are -24.61% away from the 50-day moving average and -16.71% away from 20-day average.
Moving average is significant analytical tool used to discover current price trends and the possibility for a change in an established trend. Traders and technical analysts have the ability to use volume to help measure the strength of a particular move. The stock's 50 day moving average price is $2.09 and its 200 day moving average price is $2.34.
ROA ratio indicates how profitable a company is relative to its total assets. It is calculated by dividing net income by average shareholders' equity. While looking the figure depicted by the Price to Earning we can suggest that the shares of Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (HMY) are overvalued. While it's Return on Investment (ROI) value is 3.2%. Now the P/E of Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (HMY) stands at 3.37. The company made Return on equity of 10.40% in last 12 months period. The company has total market capitalization of $737.09M and a total of 439.96M outstanding shares.
Usually, the ROE ratio's between 12-15 percent are considered desirable.
The counter witnessed a trading volume of 29.7 million shares versus an average volume of 5.2 million shares during last trading session. Zacks Investment Research cut Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research report on Monday, March 6th. We have recently been focusing on stocks that are trading under the $10 price level. In our current pick, Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (HMY) has weekly volatility of 6.46%% while its monthly volatility value is at 4.69%%. Likewise, the negative performance for the quarter was recorded as -6.51% and for the year was 6.43%, while the YTD performance remained at 1.10%.