Cameco Corp. (CCJ) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $41.73, with 6.94 million shares of worth about $289.63 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 15.76% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a gain of about 0.63%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 434.18M shares, out of which, 432.99M shares are available for trading.
However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 42.30, or with a gain of 0.63%. Stock saw a price change of -0.31% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -9.64%. Year-to-date (YTD), CCJ shares are showing a performance of -3.18% which increased to 44.95% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $23.69 but also hit the highest price of $51.33 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Cameco Corp. shares is 5.23 million. The stock is currently trading -8.88% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -7.76% for SMA50 and it goes to 10.00% higher than SMA200.
Cameco Corp. (NYSE: CCJ) currently have 434.18M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 76.02% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $18.12B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.95. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 67.84, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.62 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.41 and has Quick Ratio of 0.97 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.29. 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 3.31% while standing at 3.59% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Cameco Corp. (CCJ) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0.24 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.21 and it is $1.22 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0.08 which is $0.52 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 $0.2 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 85.78% while it is estimated to increase by 52.93% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 48.01% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 13.73% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Stock get an Outperform rating from RBC Capital Mkts on April 11, 2022.
