Insider Selling: 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 Aura Minerals stock in a transaction that occurred 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 Stock Down 1.9 %

Shares of Aura Minerals stock opened at C$11.67 on Thursday. Aura Minerals Inc. has a 1-year low of C$8.09 and a 1-year high of C$13.52. The company has a market capitalization of C$843.04 million, a PE ratio of 166.71 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. The business has a 50-day moving average of C$11.73 and a 200-day moving average of C$10.19.

Aura Minerals (TSE:ORA) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, May 6th. The company reported C$0.21 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of C$0.39 by C($0.18). Aura Minerals had a net margin of 0.89% and a return on equity of 1.26%. The business had revenue of C$178.06 million for the quarter. As a group, equities analysts forecast that Aura Minerals Inc. will post 1.1825243 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Aura Minerals Increases Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a Semi-Annual dividend, which will be paid on Friday, June 28th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, June 20th will be paid a dividend of $0.482 per share. This represents a yield of 2.74%. This is an increase 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 957.14%.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Separately, National Bankshares raised their price target on shares of Aura Minerals from C$15.00 to C$16.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a 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.