Vista Gold Stock Price To Earning
| VGZ Stock | CAD 0.84 0.04 5.00% |
Vista Gold fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Vista Gold's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Vista Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Vista Gold's intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Vista Gold stock.
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Vista Gold Company Price To Earning Analysis
Vista Gold's Price to Earnings ratio is typically used for current valuation of a company and is one of the most popular ratios that investors monitor daily. Holding a low PE stock is less risky because when a company's profitability falls, it is likely that earnings will also go down as well. In other words, if you start from a lower position, your downside risk is limited. There are also some investors who believe that low Price to Earnings ratio reflects the low pricing because a given company is in trouble. On the other hand, a higher PE ratio means that investors are paying more for each unit of profit.
Current Vista Gold Price To Earning | (8.77) X |
Most of Vista Gold's fundamental indicators, such as Price To Earning, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Vista Gold is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Vista Price To Earning Driver Correlations
Understanding the fundamental principles of building solid financial models for Vista Gold is extremely important. It helps to project a fair market value of Vista Stock properly, considering its historical fundamentals such as Price To Earning. Since Vista Gold's main accounts across its financial reports are all linked and dependent on each other, it is essential to analyze all possible correlations between related accounts. However, instead of reviewing all of Vista Gold's historical financial statements, investors can examine the correlated drivers to determine its overall health. This can be effectively done using a conventional correlation matrix of Vista Gold's interrelated accounts and indicators.
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Generally speaking, the Price to Earnings ratio gives investors an idea of what the market is willing to pay for the company's current earnings.
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Based on the latest financial disclosure, Vista Gold has a Price To Earning of -8.77 times. This is 108.37% lower than that of the Metals & Mining sector and 141.72% lower than that of the Materials industry. The price to earning for all Canada stocks is 130.54% higher than that of the company.
Vista Price To Earning Peer Comparison
Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Vista Gold's direct or indirect competition against its Price To Earning to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Vista Gold could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Vista Gold by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.Vista Gold is currently under evaluation in price to earning category among its peers.
Vista Gold Current Valuation Drivers
We derive many important indicators used in calculating different scores of Vista Gold from analyzing Vista Gold's financial statements. These drivers represent accounts that assess Vista Gold's ability to generate profits relative to its revenue, operating costs, and shareholders' equity. Below are some of Vista Gold's important valuation drivers and their relationship over time.
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 (projected) | ||
| Market Cap | 72.9M | 110.0M | 78.2M | 58.4M | 54.8M | 61.4M | |
| Enterprise Value | 71.5M | 102.2M | 65.5M | 50.3M | 48.7M | 56.3M |
Vista Fundamentals
| Return On Equity | 0.88 | ||||
| Return On Asset | -0.32 | ||||
| Current Valuation | 77.68 M | ||||
| Shares Outstanding | 123.17 M | ||||
| Shares Owned By Insiders | 2.86 % | ||||
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 26.96 % | ||||
| Number Of Shares Shorted | 38.09 K | ||||
| Price To Earning | (8.77) X | ||||
| Price To Book | 3.71 X | ||||
| EBITDA | (6.72 M) | ||||
| Net Income | (6.58 M) | ||||
| Cash And Equivalents | 10.45 M | ||||
| Cash Per Share | 0.10 X | ||||
| Total Debt | 3.98 M | ||||
| Current Ratio | 13.75 X | ||||
| Book Value Per Share | 0.15 X | ||||
| Cash Flow From Operations | (5.86 M) | ||||
| Short Ratio | 2.48 X | ||||
| Earnings Per Share | 0.13 X | ||||
| Target Price | 4.96 | ||||
| Number Of Employees | 12 | ||||
| Beta | 1.73 | ||||
| Market Capitalization | 104.18 M | ||||
| Total Asset | 8.93 M | ||||
| Retained Earnings | (471.4 M) | ||||
| Working Capital | 5.58 M | ||||
| Current Asset | 15.2 M | ||||
| Current Liabilities | 803 K | ||||
| Net Asset | 8.93 M |
About Vista Gold Fundamental Analysis
The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Vista Gold's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Vista Gold using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Vista Gold based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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Pair Trading with Vista Gold
One of the main advantages of trading using pair correlations is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if Vista Gold position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Pair trading also minimizes risk from directional movements in the market. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the short position in Vista Gold will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.Moving together with Vista Stock
Moving against Vista Stock
The ability to find closely correlated positions to Vista Gold could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Vista Gold when you sell it. If you don't do this, your portfolio allocation will be skewed against your target asset allocation. So, investors can't just sell and buy back Vista Gold - that would be a violation of the tax code under the "wash sale" rule, and this is why you need to find a similar enough asset and use the proceeds from selling Vista Gold to buy it.
The correlation of Vista Gold is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as Vista Gold moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Vista Gold moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
Correlation analysis and pair trading evaluation for Vista Gold can also be used as hedging techniques within a particular sector or industry or even over random equities to generate a better risk-adjusted return on your portfolios.Check out World Market Map to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Vista Gold. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in board of governors. To learn how to invest in Vista Stock, please use our How to Invest in Vista Gold guide.You can also try the Bonds Directory module to find actively traded corporate debentures issued by US companies.