Joao Kleber Dos Santos Cardoso Sells 10,000 Shares of Aura Minerals Inc. (TSE:ORA) Stock

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

Aura Minerals Stock Performance

Shares of Aura Minerals stock opened at C$11.90 on Wednesday. The company has a 50 day moving average of C$11.71 and a 200-day moving average of C$10.18. 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 current ratio of 1.95, a quick ratio of 1.22 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 119.13. The company has a market cap of C$859.66 million, a PE ratio of 170.00 and a beta of 0.45.

Aura Minerals (TSE:ORA) last issued its quarterly earnings results 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 return on equity of 1.26% and a net margin of 0.89%. The firm had revenue of C$178.06 million for the quarter. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that Aura Minerals Inc. will post 1.1825243 earnings per share 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. Investors of record on Thursday, June 20th will be paid a $0.482 dividend. This is an increase from Aura Minerals’s previous Semi-Annual dividend of $0.35. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, June 20th. This represents a yield of 2.74%. Aura Minerals’s dividend payout ratio is presently 957.14%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

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

About Aura Minerals

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.