Today's Pre-Market Trading Very Positive For Barrick Gold (ABX)
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Trade-Ideas LLC identified
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) as a pre-market leader candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Barrick Gold as such a stock due to the following factors:
- ABX has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $174.4 million.
- ABX traded 28,890 shares today in the pre-market hours as of 8:00 AM.
- ABX is up 2.5% today from yesterday's close.
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More details on ABX:
Barrick Gold Corporation produces and sells gold and copper. It is also involved in exploration and mine development activities. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Currently there are 2 analysts that rate Barrick Gold a buy, 2 analysts rate it a sell, and 13 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Barrick Gold has been 18.1 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Barrick has a market cap of $13.3 billion and is part of the basic materials sector and metals & mining industry. Shares are up 5.8% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.
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Analysis:
rates Barrick Gold as a
. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its weak operating cash flow, generally disappointing historical performance in the stock itself and generally high debt management risk.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- Net operating cash flow has significantly decreased to $371.00 million or 63.48% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, when comparing the cash generation rate to the industry average, the firm's growth is significantly lower.
- The debt-to-equity ratio of 1.28 is relatively high when compared with the industry average, suggesting a need for better debt level management. Even though the debt-to-equity ratio is weak, ABX's quick ratio is somewhat strong at 1.30, demonstrating the ability to handle short-term liquidity needs.
- ABX's stock share price has done very poorly compared to where it was a year ago: Despite any rallies, the net result is that it is down by 43.84%, which is also worse that the performance of the S&P 500 Index. Investors have so far failed to pay much attention to the earnings improvements the company has managed to achieve over the last quarter. Naturally, the overall market trend is bound to be a significant factor. However, in one sense, the stock's sharp decline last year is a positive for future investors, making it cheaper (in proportion to its earnings over the past year) than most other stocks in its industry. But due to other concerns, we feel the stock is still not a good buy right now.
- The change in net income from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the Metals & Mining industry average, but is less than that of the S&P 500. The net income has decreased by 0.7% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, dropping from -$2,830.00 million to -$2,851.00 million.
- The company's current return on equity greatly increased when compared to its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a signal of significant strength within the corporation. Compared to other companies in the Metals & Mining industry and the overall market, BARRICK GOLD CORP's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- You can view the full Barrick Gold Ratings Report.
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