Assessing Whether New Gold Inc (AMEX: NGD) Is Over- Or Undervalued

New Gold Inc (NGD) concluded trading on Thursady at a closing price of $1.10, with 4.87 million shares of worth about $5.35 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 11.26% during that period and on Thursady the price saw a loss of about -5.17%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 687.01M shares, out of which, 645.70M shares are available for trading.

However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 1.1500, or with a loss of -5.17%. Stock saw a price change of -3.51% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -14.06%. Year-to-date (YTD), NGD shares are showing a performance of -24.66% which increased to 20.05% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $0.82 but also hit the highest price of $1.61 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for New Gold Inc shares is 3.97 million. The stock is currently trading -9.84% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -17.34% for SMA50 and it goes to -7.61% lower than SMA200.

New Gold Inc (AMEX: NGD) currently have 687.01M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 46.32% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $754.16M and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.51. It has posted earnings per share of -$0.09 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 0.98 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.51. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for NGD, volatility over the week remained 5.08% while standing at 5.93% over the month.

Analysts are in expectations that New Gold Inc (NGD) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0.01 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.01 and it is $0.17 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -$0.02 which is $0.02 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 $0.03 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 38.21% while it is estimated to increase by 64.51% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 5.00% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 46.46% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Scotiabank on March 03, 2023 offering a Sector perform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $1.25 to it. Stock get a Sector perform rating from RBC Capital Mkts on September 08, 2021.

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