Vista Gold Corp (AMEX:VGZ) does about 497.03K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 163939 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 68.99M USD. Its current market price is $0.56, marking a decrease of -2.23% compared to the previous close of $0.57. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $0.83 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.32.
Vista Gold Corp (VGZ) has a 20-day trading average at $0.5734 and the current price is -32.27% off the 52-week high compared with 74.43% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $0.6106 and its 200-day simple moving average is $0.5726. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 8.09%, which decreases to 6.16% 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 45.43 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $2.75, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 79.64% over the period.
FactSet Research has provided data showing that 1 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 1 analysts have rated it as a buy and 0 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Strong Buy the stock.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on October 27, 2020 when ROTH Capital resumed the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $2.30. H.C. Wainwright initiated its price target at $1.25.
The current price level is -2.31%, -8.27%, and -2.18% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the VGZ price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Vista Gold Corp (VGZ) stock is up 7.71% over the week and -7.42% over the past month. Its price is 23.94% year-to-date and 24.52% over the past year.
The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0 and 0.09 for whole year.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 79.64 percent from here.
The company has a return on investment of 59.28% and return on equity of 88.35%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 6.31. The beta has a value of 1.71. Price to book ratio is 3.62.
