Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (NYSE: FSM) Plunges -0.64% And Its 2.86% Stock Volatility Is Bewildering

Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (NYSE:FSM) does about 6.99M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 4168542 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 1.90B USD. Its current market price is $6.20, marking a decrease of -0.64% compared to the previous close of $6.24. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $6.36 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $2.58.

Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (FSM) has a 20-day trading average at $5.62 and the current price is -2.52% off the 52-week high compared with 140.31% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $4.89 and its 200-day simple moving average is $3.61. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.86%, which increases to 3.97% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 73.44 to suggest the stock is overbought.

The consensus objective for the share price is $6.14, suggesting that the stock has a potential downside of -0.98% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on May 30, 2023 when Scotiabank resumed the stock to “Sector Perform” and issued a price target of $4.25.

Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (FSM) stock is up 1.97% over the week and 32.48% over the past month. Its price is 60.62% year-to-date and 76.64% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to shrink -0.98 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of -2.49% and return on equity of -2.82%. The forward price to earnings ratio is 16.16. The beta has a value of 1.60. Price to book ratio is 1.50 and price to sales ratio is 2.12.