Ur-Energy Inc. (AMEX: URG): Stock That Needs Special Handling

With over 10.13 million Ur-Energy Inc. (URG) shares trading Friday and a closing price of $1.73 on the day, the dollar volume was approximately $17.53 million. The shares have shown a positive half year performance of 77.05% and its price on 01/12/24 gained nearly 6.13%. Currently, there are 265.99M common shares owned by the public and among those 252.49M shares have been available to trade.

Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 107 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 65 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 3,457,482 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 42 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 2,783,243 shares.

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The top 3 mutual fund holders in Ur-Energy Inc. are Sprott Uranium Miners ETF, Global X Uranium ETF, and Geiger Counter Ltd.. Sprott Uranium Miners ETF owns 17.26 million shares of the company’s stock, all valued at over $26.59 million. The company bought an additional 39496.0 shares recently to bring their total holdings to about 6.49% of the shares outstanding. Geiger Counter Ltd. bought 1.29 million shares to bring its total holdings to over 9.51 million shares at a value of $14.65 million. Geiger Counter Ltd. now owns shares totaling to 3.58% of the shares outstanding.

Shares of Ur-Energy Inc. (AMEX: URG) opened at $1.67, up $0.04 from a prior closing price of $1.63. However, the script later moved the day high at 1.7600, up 6.13%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 18.49% and 20.14% over the past three months. URG shares are trading 12.34% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 35.16% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $0.82 and touched a high of $1.71 over the same period. URG has an average intraday trading volume of 2.06 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 13.07%, 10.28%, and 38.12% respectively.

Institutional ownership of Ur-Energy Inc. (AMEX: URG) shares accounts for 46.85% of the company’s 265.99M shares outstanding. Mutual fund holders own –, while other institutional holders and individual stakeholders account for — and — respectively.

It has a market capitalization of $460.16M and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.16. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$0.12. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 5.82% over the week and 5.50% over the month.

Analysts forecast that Ur-Energy Inc. (URG) will achieve an EPS of $Global X Uranium ETF for the current quarter, $31.48 for the next quarter and $ETF for Type. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $United Rentals, Inc. while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $Ur Energy Inc. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was $Reaves Utility Income Fund of a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -43.75%, and 131.88% over the next financial year.

Looking at the support for the URG, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. FBR Capital stated their Outperform rating for the stock in a research note on September 02, 2016, with the firm’s price target at $1.

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