Ferroglobe Plc (NASDAQ:GSM) price on Friday, April 11, rose 2.16% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $3.31.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $3.24, moving within a range at $3.195 and $3.315. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.577 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 139.08. Turning to its 52-week performance, $6.19 and $2.97 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, GSM moved -15.35% over the past month.
Ferroglobe Plc’s market cap currently stands at around $621.90 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-18. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.05, with its dividend yield at 1.60%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 336M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 324.9M and 347.1M respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -14.25% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 1.61B, representing a -2.20% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that GSM is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 4.24, with GSM’s current price about -9.23% and -11.18% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 39.55, while 7-day volatility ratio is 9.63% and 5.20% in the 30-day chart. Further, Ferroglobe Plc (GSM) has a beta value of 1.71, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.20.
If we refocus on Ferroglobe Plc (NASDAQ:GSM), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.52 over the past 10 days and 1.06 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 187.88 million shares.
The 37.31% of Ferroglobe Plc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 52.25% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 2.3 million on 2025-03-14, giving us a short ratio of 1.72. The data shows that as of 2025-03-14 short interest in Ferroglobe Plc (GSM) stood at 205.99999000000003 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 1.66 million registered in 2025-02-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -12.89% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the GSM stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
