Perpetua Resources Corp (NASDAQ: PPTA) is 91.65% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $5.01 and a high of $17.96 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The PPTA stock was last observed hovering at around $13.02 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -11.36%.
Currently trading at $1.66M, the stock is -11.09% and -6.84% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 4.34 million and changing 4342576% at the moment leaves the stock 16.57% off its SMA200. PPTA registered 22.68% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 12.17%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $14.0505 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $11.2296.
The stock witnessed a -0.83% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 17.40%, and is 0.69% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.44% over the week and 6.71% over the month.
Perpetua Resources Corp (PPTA) has around 36 employees, a market worth around $1.36B and $0.00M in sales. Distance from 52-week low is 161.28% and -27.12% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (-19.25%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -72.73% this year.
Perpetua Resources Corp (PPTA) Top Institutional Holders
183.0 institutions hold shares in Perpetua Resources Corp (PPTA), with institutional investors hold 64.40% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 71.29M, and float is at 71.12M with Short Float at 7.47%. Institutions hold 64.13% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is PAULSON & CO. INC. with over 24.77 million shares valued at $128.81 million. The investor’s holdings represent 38.3969% of the PPTA Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is KOPERNIK GLOBAL INVESTORS, LLC with 5.06 million shares valued at $26.33 million to account for 7.8474 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are SUN VALLEY GOLD LLC which holds 4.67 million shares representing 7.2333% and valued at over $24.19 million, while BLACKROCK INC. holds 3.2165 of the shares totaling 2.08 million with a market value of $10.79 million.
Perpetua Resources Corp (PPTA) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider purchase by PAULSON & CO. INC., the company’s Member of 10% Owner Group. SEC filings show that PAULSON & CO. INC. bought 7,575,757 shares of the company’s common stock on Jun 16 ’25 at a price of $13.20 per share for a total of $100.0 million. Following the purchase, the insider now owns 32.35 million shares.
Perpetua Resources Corp disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on Apr 24 ’25 that Wright Michael Stephen (( (3))) sold a total of 6,500 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on Apr 24 ’25 and was made at $13.85 per share for $90025.0. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 14195.0 shares of the PPTA stock.
Still, SEC filings show that on Mar 28 ’25, Lyon Mckinsey Margaret (( (5))) disposed off 20,000 shares at an average price of $11.00 for $0.22 million. The insider now directly holds 89,154 shares of Perpetua Resources Corp (PPTA).
