MM Asset Management, Inc. recently announced the acquisition of new stake in Uranium Energy Corp (AMEX:UEC). The institutional investor has increased its shareholding in the Energy company by 59.43% to 21.43 million shares with purchase of 7.99 million shares. This fresh investment now brings its stake to 5.55% valued currently at $139.71 million. In addition, Global X Management Co. LLC raised its holdings by 1.87 million to 20.96 million shares. And The Vanguard Group, Inc. has lifted its position by 1.11% or 0.23 million shares – to 20.67 million shares.
Currently, there are 392.98M common shares owned by the public and among those 384.01M shares have been available to trade.
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The top 3 mutual fund holders in Uranium Energy Corp are Global X Uranium ETF, Sprott Uranium Miners ETF, and SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF. Global X Uranium ETF owns 21.58 million shares of the company’s stock, all valued at over $140.72 million. SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF sold 17738.0 shares to bring its total holdings to over 11.9 million shares at a value of $77.56 million. SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF now owns shares totaling to 3.08% of the shares outstanding.
However, the script later moved the day high at 6.73, up 1.89%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -4.72% and 26.67% over the past three months. UEC shares are trading 66.49% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 100.00% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $2.30 and touched a high of $6.86 over the same period. UEC has an average intraday trading volume of 8.41 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -0.72%, 8.69%, and 58.14% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Uranium Energy Corp (AMEX: UEC) shares accounts for 53.41% of the company’s 392.98M shares outstanding. Mutual fund holders own 36.21%, while other institutional holders and individual stakeholders account for 5.68% and 18.37% respectively.
It has a market capitalization of $2.54B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.85. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 680.00, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.01. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 9.20% over the week and 4.98% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 178.90%, and 772.26% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the UEC, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. TD Securities stated their Speculative Buy rating for the stock in a research note on September 13, 2023, with the firm’s price target at $6.
