Royal Gold (RGLD) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Royal Gold, Inc. is a precious metals streaming and royalty company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The company provides financing to mining companies in exchange for the right to purchase a portion of the gold, silver, copper, or other metals produced from their mines, typically at predetermined prices. It also holds royalty interests that entitle it to a percentage of revenue or production from mining operations without directly operating the mines.

Royal Gold’s business is focused on acquiring and managing a diversified portfolio of streaming and royalty interests. Its interests include established and developing mines such as Mount Milligan in Canada, Pueblo Viejo in the Dominican Republic, Andacollo in Chile, and Cortez in Nevada. Through these arrangements, Royal Gold gains exposure to mineral production while generally avoiding the direct capital, operating, and environmental costs associated with mine development and operation.

Founded in 1981, Royal Gold originally pursued mineral exploration before transitioning toward its current royalty and streaming business model. The company’s portfolio spans major mining regions in North America, South America, Australia, and other international markets. Royal Gold is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol RGLD and trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol RGL.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $254.61 to $265.38
• 50-Day Range: $224.84 to $268.96
• 52-Week Range: $170.89 to $306.25
• Volume: 479,060 shs
• Average Volume: 828,931 shs
• Market Capitalization: $22.37 billion
• P/E Ratio: 26.61
• Dividend Yield: 0.72%
• Price Target: $309.67
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

Royal Gold Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Royal Gold scored higher than 98% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 6th out of 231 stocks in the materials sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 3.8 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

Royal Gold has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.73, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 8 buy ratings, 3 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Upside Potential

Royal Gold has a consensus price target of $309.67, representing about 17.5% upside from its current price of $263.57.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Royal Gold has been the subject of 5 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.9 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 9.48%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for Royal Gold are expected to grow by 9.48% in the coming year, from $10.65 to $11.66 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Royal Gold is 26.57, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 26.52.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Royal Gold is 26.57, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Materials sector average P/E ratio of about 28.26.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Royal Gold has a PEG Ratio of 1.78. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Royal Gold has a P/B Ratio of 3.09. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 5.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Healthy

Percentage of Shares Shorted

2.49% of the float of Royal Gold has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Royal Gold has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 3.91, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Royal Gold has recently decreased by 5.96%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 3.3 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Strong

Dividend Yield

Royal Gold has a dividend yield of 0.82%, which is in the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

Royal Gold has been increasing its dividend for 25 years.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of Royal Gold is 19.15%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

Dividend Sustainability

Based on earnings estimates, Royal Gold will have a dividend payout ratio of 16.30% next year. This indicates that Royal Gold will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.

News and Social Media

• Score: 4.3 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.85

News Sentiment

Royal Gold has a news sentiment score of 0.85. 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 is a higher news sentiment than the 0.45 average news sentiment score of Materials companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 19 news articles for Royal Gold this week, compared to 5 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

11 people have searched for RGLD on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 120% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

20 people have added Royal Gold to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 82% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

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

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Royal Gold insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $131,400.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

0.35% of the stock of Royal Gold is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

83.65% of the stock of Royal Gold is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

Company Calendar

• Record date for 10/16 Dividend: 10/02/2026
• Ex-Dividend for 10/16 Dividend: 10/02/2026
• Dividend Payable: 10/16/2026
• Last Earnings: 11/04/2026
• Today: 11/06/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
• Sector: Materials
• Industry: Metals & Mining
• Sub-Industry: Gold
• Current Symbol: NASDAQ:RGLD
• CIK: 85535
• Web: www.royalgold.com
• Phone: (303) 573-1660
• Fax: 303-595-9385
• Employees: 39
• Year Founded: 1986

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Royal Gold: $309.67
• High Price Target: $340.00
• Low Price Target: $263.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +17.3%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.73
• Research Coverage: 11 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): $9.92
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 26.61
• Forward P/E Ratio: 22.64
• P/E Growth: 1.78
• Net Income: $467.27 million
• Net Margins: 47.69%
• Pretax Margin: 58.81%
• Return on Equity: 11.80%
• Return on Assets: 9.24%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.05
• Current Ratio: 2.92
• Quick Ratio: 2.68

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $1.55 billion
• Price / Sales: 14.46
• Cash Flow: $8.73 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 30.23
• Book Value: $85.37 per share
• Price / Book: 3.09

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 84,728,000
• Free Float: 84,431,000
• Market Cap: $22.37 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 0.46