With 1.09 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.91 million shares. During the session, the Gold company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $1.4 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $1.34. The 52-week range on GAU shows that it touched its highest point at $2.00 and its lowest point at $1.00 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $2.41. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.63.
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 GAU was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 6.87%, but this was up by 6.87% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 28.44% while six-month performance fell -3.45%. The stock lost -6.67% in the past year, while it has gained 13.82% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GAU yields 0.02 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.47. For the next quarter, that number is 0.02. This implies an EPS growth rate of 73.76% for this year and 58.42% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 257.08 million GAU shares are outstanding with a float of 205.60 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 2.27 million, which was 88.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Matt Badylak as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Matthew Freeman A.C.A. serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.5813 of GAU’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-12-31, GAU reported revenue of $64551000.0 and operating income of $15381000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $23464000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for GAU since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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. With GAU analysts setting a high price target of 2.8 and a low target of 2.8, the average target price over the next 12 months is 2.8. Based on these targets, GAU could surge 100.0% to reach the target high and rise by 100.0% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 100.0% from current levels.
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 $0.13478 being high and $0.0673875 being low. For GAU, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.10782. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.12 and the low estimate is $0.11. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.12.
