Currently, there are 1.31B common shares owned by the public and among those 1.29B shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 0.83% and -29.45% over the past three months. BTG shares are trading -0.82% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -14.18% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $2.20 and touched a high of $3.50 over the same period. BTG has an average intraday trading volume of 17.48 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 -1.49%, -6.46%, and -13.91% respectively.
Institutional ownership of B2gold Corp (AMEX: BTG) shares accounts for 56.94% of the company’s 1.31B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $3.19B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.12. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$0.56. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.93% over the week and 3.87% over the month.
Analysts forecast that B2gold Corp (BTG) will achieve an EPS of 0.07 for the current quarter, 0.08 for the next quarter and 0.42 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.05 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.05. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.07 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -25.42%, and 100.22% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 18.40% over the next five years, compared to -22.48% over the past 5-year period.
Jefferies coverage for the B2gold Corp (BTG) stock in a research note released on February 29, 2024 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $3.50. JP Morgan on their part issued Underweight rating on December 10, 2021.
