Sandstorm Gold Ltd (NYSE:SAND) price on Thursday, March 28, rose 1.56% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $5.22.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $5.14. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.03 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 37.83. Turning to its 52-week performance, $6.31 and $3.96 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, SAND moved 30.50% over the past month.
Sandstorm Gold Ltd’s market cap currently stands at around $1.56 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for May 08, 2024 – May 13, 2024. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.06, with its dividend yield at 1.14%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report. Analysts project the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be $0.01, which has seen fiscal year 2024 EPS growth forecast to increase to $0.07 and about $0.13 for fiscal year 2025. Per the data, EPS growth is expected to be -61.10% for 2024 and 85.70% for the next financial year.
Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue for 2024 to grow to $168.68 million, representing a -6.10% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Revisions could be used as tool to get short term price movement insight, and for the company that in the past seven days was no upward and no downward review(s). Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that SAND is a 50% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Buy category.
SAND’s current price about 8.93% and 14.23% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 68.37, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.28% and 3.51% in the 30-day chart. Further, Sandstorm Gold Ltd (SAND) has a beta value of 1.10, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.16.
If we refocus on Sandstorm Gold Ltd (NYSE:SAND), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 2.15 million over the past 10 days and 2.20 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 297.67 million shares.
The 17.34% of Sandstorm Gold Ltd’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 48.94% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 6.89 million on Mar 15, 2024, giving us a short ratio of 2.59. The data shows that as of Mar 15, 2024 short interest in Sandstorm Gold Ltd (SAND) stood at 2.31% of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 6.42 million registered in Feb 15, 2024. Current price change has pushed the stock 3.78% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the SAND stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
