Is Geopark Limited (GPRK) positioned for future growth?

With 0.76 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.83 million shares. The 52-week range on GPRK shows that it touched its highest point at $11.72 and its lowest point at $5.66 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $12.10. With its current market cap of 341.73 million, GPRK has annualized dividend of $0.59 while the current yield stands at 8.83%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.79.

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 down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.48%, but this was up by 14.04% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -26.08% while six-month performance fell -16.23%. The stock lost -29.37% in the past year, while it has lost -28.16% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GPRK yields 1.80 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.15. For the next quarter, that number is 0.34. This implies an EPS growth rate of -26.05% for this year and -13.65% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -6.23% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 13.96%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 51.31 million GPRK shares are outstanding with a float of 37.60 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.