The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About Equinox Gold Corp (AMEX: EQX)

Equinox Gold Corp (AMEX:EQX) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.89M but it saw 2504303 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 2.55B USD, the company’s current market price of $5.60 came rising about 2.56 while comparing to the previous closing price of $5.46. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $6.50 and as low as $3.95. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $5.5 while lowest mark touched by it was $5.67.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Equinox Gold Corp (EQX) gives us an average price of $5.46, while its current price level is -13.85% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 41.77% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $5.73 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $5.49. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.93% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 4.00%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 51.27 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, EQX’s stock price is moving 2.19% up while it is -4.11% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 14.52% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 4.48%.

Currently, Equinox Gold Corp’s total number of outstanding shares is 455.40M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 5.50% and return on equity (ROE) at 8.72%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 11.60 while having a 5.27 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.31. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.74 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.06. Its return on asset (ROA) is 4.41% on average.