Currently, there are 632.44M common shares owned by the public and among those 585.70M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 5.48% and 15.14% over the past three months. HL shares are trading 25.71% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 25.46% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $4.41 and touched a high of $7.68 over the same period. HL has an average intraday trading volume of 22.37 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 2.73%, 10.73%, and 7.14% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Hecla Mining Co (NYSE: HL) shares accounts for 66.22% of the company’s 632.44M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $3.90B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.27. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 55.45, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.11. The company has a PEG of 1.44 and a Quick Ratio of 0.75 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.28. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.36% over the week and 3.69% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 96.67%, and 63.82% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the HL, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Roth Capital stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on July 01, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $6. ROTH MKM was of a view on October 13, 2023 that the stock is Buy, while BMO Capital Markets gave the stock Outperform rating on September 14, 2023, issuing a price target of $5.50. National Bank Financial on their part issued Outperform rating on June 28, 2023.
