Kinross Gold Corporation (NYSE:KGC) saw an upside of 2.87% to close Tuesday at $5.02 after adding $0.14 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 12,128,180 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $5.05 in the past week and touched a new high 4 times within the past 5 days. An average of 8,984,165 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 9,719,624.
KGC’s 1-month performance is 4.37% or $0.43 on its low of $4.54 reached on 08/02/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $3.09 and high of $5.57, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 05/10/23. YTD, KGC has achieved 22.74% or $0.93 and has reached a new high 18 times. However, the current price is down -9.79% from the 52-week high price.
Valuation Metrics
KGC stock has a beta of 0.97. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 1.49 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 1.03, with the price to cash flow ratio at 20.68.
Kinross Gold Corporation’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 0.60, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.60. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 0.33, while the total debt to equity was 0.42.. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 27.60%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 33.51% while for the period ending June 29, Kinross Gold Corporation’s operating margin was 10.40%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $515.4 million against revenue of $3.46 billion.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, Kinross Gold Corporation’s cash and short-term investments amounted to $43.2 million against total debt of $2.51 billion. Net income and sales went up compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income grew 103.28% to $718.6 million, while revenue of $0.0 was 100.0% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected KGC to announce $0.08 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.14, representing a 75.00% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $477.1 million. KGC stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 4.46 billion, with total debt at $2.51 billion.
Let’s look briefly at Kinross Gold Corporation (KGC) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 08 August was 56.78% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 54.61%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $4.83, reflecting a +5.24% or $0.25 change from its current price. KGC is currently trading +4.15% above its 20-day SMA, +31.41% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by +7.49% and SMA200 by+50.30%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 63.47% and 46.13% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.18. The RSI (14) points at 54.71%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 78.69% with the period’s ATR at 0.17. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at 0.12 and 0.06 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Kinross Gold Corporation (NYSE: KGC), BofA Securities downgraded it to an Underperform rating. They previously had a Buy rating on the stock.
