Aura Minerals Inc. (TSE:ORA) Senior Officer Sells C$123,000.00 in Stock

Aura Minerals Inc. (TSE:ORA) Senior Officer Joao Kleber Dos Santos Cardoso sold 10,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, June 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of C$12.30, for a total transaction of C$123,000.00.

Aura Minerals Trading Down 0.4 %

Shares of Aura Minerals stock traded down C$0.05 during trading on Monday, hitting C$12.50. The stock had a trading volume of 1,206 shares, compared to its average volume of 11,577. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is C$11.67 and its 200-day simple moving average is C$10.16. The stock has a market cap of C$903 million, a PE ratio of 179.29 and a beta of 0.45. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 119.13, a current ratio of 1.95 and a quick ratio of 1.22. Aura Minerals Inc. has a 12 month low of C$8.09 and a 12 month high of C$13.52.

Aura Minerals (TSE:ORA) last released its earnings results on Monday, May 6th. The company reported C$0.21 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of C$0.39 by C($0.18). The firm had revenue of C$178.06 million during the quarter. Aura Minerals had a return on equity of 1.26% and a net margin of 0.89%. As a group, sell-side analysts expect that Aura Minerals Inc. will post 1.1825243 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Aura Minerals Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a Semi-Annual dividend, which will be paid on Friday, June 28th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, June 20th will be issued a dividend of $0.482 per share. This represents a yield of 2.74%. This is a boost from Aura Minerals’s previous Semi-Annual dividend of $0.35. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, June 20th. Aura Minerals’s dividend payout ratio is presently 957.14%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, National Bankshares increased their price objective on shares of Aura Minerals from C$15.00 to C$16.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Monday, June 10th.

Aura Minerals Company Profile

Aura Minerals Inc, a gold and copper production company, focuses on the development and operation of gold and base metal projects in the Americas. It operates through Minosa Mine, Apoena Mines, The Aranzazu Mine, Corporate, Almas, and Projects segments. The company primarily explores for gold and copper in Brazil, Mexico, and Honduras.