Currently, there are 435.32M common shares owned by the public and among those 433.81M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -1.31% and 42.47% over the past three months. CCJ shares are trading 16.13% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 8.96% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $35.00 and touched a high of $62.55 over the same period. CCJ has an average intraday trading volume of 4.45 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 10.44%, 27.23%, and 22.67% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Cameco Corp (NYSE: CCJ) shares accounts for 76.58% of the company’s 435.32M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $25.98B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.97. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 146.60, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.41. The company has a PEG of 2.49 and a Quick Ratio of 1.26 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.15. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.00% over the week and 2.93% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Cameco Corp (CCJ) will achieve an EPS of 0.3 for the current quarter, 0.36 for the next quarter and 2.12 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.12 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.12. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.14 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 90.50%, and 70.08% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 58.80% over the next five years, compared to 15.41% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the CCJ, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Goldman stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on May 20, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $65. Cantor Fitzgerald on their part issued Overweight rating on July 31, 2024.
