Southern Silver Exploration (SSV) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Southern Silver Exploration Corp., an exploration stage company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of precious/base metal properties in North America. The company explores for gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc ores. Its flagship property is the Cerro Las Minitas project that comprises twenty-five mineral concessions covering an area of approximately 27,422 hectares located in Durango State, Mexico. The company was formerly known as Newcoast Silver Mines Ltd. and changed its name to Southern Silver Exploration Corp. in July 2004. Southern Silver Exploration Corp. was incorporated in 1963 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: C$0.61 to C$0.64
• 50-Day Range: C$0.41 to C$0.66
• 52-Week Range: C$0.20 to C$1.13
• Volume: 560,759 shs
• Average Volume: 1.16 million shs
• Market Capitalization: C$263.84 million
• P/E Ratio: N/A
• Dividend Yield: 3.09%
• Price Target: C$0.87
• Consensus Rating: Buy

Southern Silver Exploration Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Southern Silver Exploration scored higher than 43% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 3.5 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Buy

Consensus Rating

Southern Silver Exploration has received a consensus rating of Buy. The company's average rating score is 3.00, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 1 buy rating, no hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Upside Potential

Southern Silver Exploration has a consensus price target of C$0.87, representing about 38.1% upside from its current price of C$0.63.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Southern Silver Exploration has received no research coverage in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Southern Silver Exploration is -21.00, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Southern Silver Exploration is -21.00, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Southern Silver Exploration has a P/B Ratio of 4.65. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for SSV.

Dividend

• Score: 0.8 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Yield

Southern Silver Exploration pays a meaningful dividend of 3.09%, higher than the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

Southern Silver Exploration does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.2 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.45

News Sentiment

Southern Silver Exploration has a news sentiment score of 0.45. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This news sentiment score is similar to the average news sentiment of Materials companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 2 news articles for Southern Silver Exploration this week, compared to 0 articles on an average week.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.4 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Southern Silver Exploration insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought C$0.00 in company stock and sold C$15,000.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

25.66% of the stock of Southern Silver Exploration is held by insiders. A high percentage of insider ownership can be a sign of company health.

Percentage Held by Institutions

1.52% of the stock of Southern Silver Exploration is held by institutions.

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: CVE
• Sector: Materials
• Industry: Metals & Mining
• Sub-Industry: N/A
• Current Symbol: CVE:SSV
• CIK: N/A
• Web: www.southernsilverexploration.com
• Phone: +1-604-6849384
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: N/A
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Southern Silver Exploration: C$0.87
• High Price Target: C$0.87
• Low Price Target: C$0.87
• Potential Upside/Downside: +38.1%
• Consensus Rating: Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 3.00
• Research Coverage: 1 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): C($0.03)
• Trailing P/E Ratio: N/A
• Forward P/E Ratio: N/A
• P/E Growth: N/A
• Net Income: -C$5.35 million
• Net Margins: N/A
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: -22.79%
• Return on Assets: -5.27%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: N/A
• Current Ratio: 13.40
• Quick Ratio: 16.07

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: N/A
• Price / Sales: N/A
• Cash Flow: C$0.10 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 6.61
• Book Value: C$0.14 per share
• Price / Book: 4.65

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 412,253,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: C$259.72 million
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 2.51