Yikang Liu Sells 5,001 Shares of Silvercorp Metals Inc. (TSE:SVM) Stock

Silvercorp Metals Inc. (TSE:SVM) Director Yikang Liu sold 5,001 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, January 27th. The shares were sold at an average price of C$4.29, for a total transaction of C$21,429.29.

Silvercorp Metals Trading Up 1.2 %

Shares of TSE:SVM opened at C$4.34 on Wednesday. The stock has a 50 day moving average of C$4.48 and a 200 day moving average of C$5.17. The company has a market cap of C$940.78 million, a PE ratio of 11.73, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.03 and a beta of 1.15. Silvercorp Metals Inc. has a 12-month low of C$3.01 and a 12-month high of C$7.34. The company has a current ratio of 4.03, a quick ratio of 4.43 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21.

Silvercorp Metals (TSE:SVM) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November 7th. The company reported C$0.12 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of C$0.11 by C$0.01. Silvercorp Metals had a net margin of 21.57% and a return on equity of 10.92%. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.09 earnings per share. As a group, equities research analysts expect that Silvercorp Metals Inc. will post 0.5394046 EPS for the current year.

Silvercorp Metals Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a Semi-Annual dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 13th. Shareholders of record on Friday, December 13th were paid a $0.017 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, November 29th. This represents a yield of 0.27%. Silvercorp Metals’s payout ratio is presently 8.11%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, BMO Capital Markets boosted their price objective on shares of Silvercorp Metals from C$7.00 to C$7.50 in a research report on Tuesday, October 29th.

About Silvercorp Metals

Silvercorp Metals Inc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and mining of mineral properties. The company primarily explores for silver, gold, lead, and zinc metals. It holds interest mines located in the Henan Province, Guangdong Province, and Hunan Province in China.