Cameco Corp. (CCJ) concluded trading on 01/03/24 at a closing price of $41.51, with 3.99 million shares of worth about $165.51 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 36.10% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a loss of about -1.26%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 432.52M shares, out of which, 431.95M shares are available for trading.
A deeper look into what the analysts at Wall Street are thinking about the price target of this stock provides us with the following: 13 analysts are covering the CCJ stock and their offered price forecasts bring an average price target of $70.08. Over the next 12 months, analysts forecasted that the stock’s price could jump as high as $75.00 and could fall to a lowest price of $64.98. The stock’s current price level is 20.54% above of average price target set by the analysts, while a rise to estimated low would result in gain of 36.12% for the stock. However, touching the estimated high of $75.00 would mean a gain of 44.65% for the stock.
Global X Uranium ETF, American Funds Capital World Grow, and Fidelity Canadian Growth Company are the top 3 mutual funds which are holding stakes in Cameco Corp. Global X Uranium ETF is currently holding 13.45 million shares of worth totaling $617.68 million. The company recently came buying 0.0 shares which brought its stake up to 3.10% of the company’s outstanding shares. American Funds Capital World Grow sold 8699.0 shares, after which its hold over company’s outstanding shares shrunk to 2.64%, leaving 11.44 million shares with the mutual fund that have a worth of about $525.2 million. Fidelity Canadian Growth Company, after buying 7.55 million shares, have now control over 1.74% of the stake in the company. It holds 0.59 million shares of worth $346.78 million.
Cameco Corp. (NYSE: CCJ) started trading at $41.57, below -$0.47 from concluding price of the previous day. However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 42.32, or with a loss of -1.26%. Stock saw a price change of -5.42% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -8.57%. Year-to-date (YTD), CCJ shares are showing a performance of -3.69% which increased to 83.11% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $22.16 but also hit the highest price of $46.95 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Cameco Corp. shares is 4.99 million. The stock is currently trading -6.64% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -3.81% for SMA50 and it goes to 19.85% higher than SMA200.
Cameco Corp. (NYSE: CCJ) currently have 432.52M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 77.21% of that. Holding of mutual funds in the company is about — while other institutional holders and individual stake holders have control over — and — of the stake respectively.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $18.01B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.96. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 91.57, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.45 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.86 and has Quick Ratio of 3.31 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for CCJ, volatility over the week remained 2.22% while standing at 2.95% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Cameco Corp. (CCJ) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $Cameco Corporation in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $41.51 and it is $Stocks for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $Crown Castle Inc. which is $Chemours Company (The) at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of $Crown Holdings, Inc. in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 160.72% while it is estimated to increase by 109.93% in next year.
Analysts at 13 brokerage firms have issued recommendations for the Cameco Corp. (CCJ)’s stock and average of those rates the stock at a “Strong Buy” and assign it a score of 1.38. Out of those 13 Wall Street analysts, 10 recommended a “Buy” rating, while 2 were in favor recommending the stock as a “Hold” and 0 analyst recommended the stock as “Sell”.
