A Look at Geopark Limited (GPRK) Shares in the Recent Past Indicates Growth

With 0.99 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.77 million shares. The 52-week range on GPRK shows that it touched its highest point at $11.72 and its lowest point at $7.24 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $14.60. With its current market cap of 395.49 million, GPRK has annualized dividend of $0.58 while the current yield stands at 7.46%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.95.

Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of GPRK was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.78%, but this was down by -14.21% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -28.89% while six-month performance fell -3.37%. The stock lost -7.20% in the past year, while it has lost -16.61% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GPRK yields 1.96 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.96. EPS is expected to decline by -5.48% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 13.97%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 51.16 million GPRK shares are outstanding with a float of 37.49 million shares on hand for trading.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for GPRK since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.

EPS: Estimates vs Actual

It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.1062 being high and $1.90697 being low. For GPRK, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.01133. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0 and the low estimate is $0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.