Gold Fields Ltd. (NYSE:GFI) persists its position slightly strong in context of buying side, while shares price increasing -5.84% during latest trading session.
Profitability Ratio Analysis; to measure firm’s performance and profitability, we focus on ordinary profitability ratio, GFI has gross profit margin of 37.90% for trailing twelve months , these are a better detectors to find consistency or positive/negative trends in a firm’s earnings. Following in trace line, returns on investment amplify the findings, the firm’s ROI concludes as -1.60%; it gives idea for personal financial decisions, to compare a firm’s profitability or to compare the efficiency of different investments.
In addition, the firm has debt to equity ratio of 0.57, sometimes its remain same with long term debt to equity ratio. Taking notice on volatility measures, price volatility of stock was 6.07% for a week and 6.45% for a month.
By tracking previous views McEwen Mining Inc. (NYSE:MUX) also in plain sight to attract passive investors, shares in most recent trading session an ascending -8.67% after traded at $2.95.
For trailing twelve months, MUX attains gross profit margin of 55.60% and operating margin stands at -12.30%, that are showing consistency of trends in firm’s earnings. While to figure out more clear vision, firm’s returns on investment calculated as -5.90%; it gives answer about efficiency of different investments in different securities. The returns on assets of firm also presenting perceptible condition of profitability, it has ROA of 2.20%, the very positive ratio starts from >+15% and very negative hits to <-15%.
The firm has noticeable volatility credentials, price volatility of stock was 7.50% for a week and 8.60% for a month. The performance of firm for the quarter recorded as -23.38% and for year stands at 215.46%, while the YTD performance was 179.74%. The co attains 0.25 for Average True Range for 14 days. The stock price of MUX is moving up from its 20 days moving average with 1.22% and isolated negatively from 50 days moving average with -7.38%.
