Central Trust Co. recently announced the acquisition of new stake in Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust (AMEX:CEF). The institutional investor has increased its shareholding in the Financial company by 4.68% to 7.83 million shares with purchase of 0.35 million shares. This fresh investment now brings its stake to 3.71% valued currently at $149.88 million. In addition, Simplicity Solutions LLC raised its holdings by 21917.0 to 6.25 million shares. And Bleakley Financial Group LLC has lifted its position by 0.19% or 12036.0 shares – to 6.25 million shares.
With over 0.48 million Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust (CEF) shares trading Friday and a closing price of $18.86 on the day, the dollar volume was approximately $9.06 million. The shares have shown a positive half year performance of 1.18% and its price on 01/12/24 gained nearly 1.02%. Currently, there are 211.06M common shares owned by the public and among those 211.06M shares have been available to trade.
Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 0 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 0 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 0 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 0 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 0 shares.
The top 3 mutual fund holders in Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust are Jupiter Asset Mgmt. Series Plc -, Cohen & Steers Closed End Opportu, and T Rowe Price International Discip. Jupiter Asset Mgmt. Series Plc – owns 2.86 million shares of the company’s stock, all valued at over $54.82 million. The company sold -0.42 million shares recently to bring their total holdings to about 1.36% of the shares outstanding. Cohen & Steers Closed End Opportu sold 23282.0 shares to see its total holdings shrink to 0.43 million shares valued at over $8.28 million and representing 0.21% of the shares outstanding. T Rowe Price International Discip sold 76100.0 shares to bring its total holdings to over 0.19 million shares at a value of $3.63 million. T Rowe Price International Discip now owns shares totaling to 0.09% of the shares outstanding.
However, the script later moved the day high at 19.05, up 1.02%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -0.26% and 8.45% over the past three months. CEF shares are trading -1.51% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 3.68% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $16.59 and touched a high of $20.12 over the same period. CEF has an average intraday trading volume of 444.25K shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -0.63%, 0.51%, and 1.79% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust (AMEX: CEF) 211.06M shares outstanding. Mutual fund holders own 1.71%, while other institutional holders and individual stakeholders account for 31.92% and — respectively.
It has a market capitalization of $3.98B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.34. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.10% over the week and 1.14% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust (CEF) will achieve an EPS of $0 for the current quarter, $0 for the next quarter and $0 for 1970. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $0 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $0. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was -$ a year ago.
