Q1 Earnings Estimate for TSE:FM Issued By Stifel Canada

First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSE:FM - Free Report) - Equities researchers at Stifel Canada issued their Q1 2025 earnings per share estimates for shares of First Quantum Minerals in a research note issued on Tuesday, April 1st. Stifel Canada analyst R. Profiti expects that the company will earn ($0.10) per share for the quarter. Stifel Canada has a "Hold" rating on the stock. The consensus estimate for First Quantum Minerals' current full-year earnings is $0.56 per share. Stifel Canada also issued estimates for First Quantum Minerals' Q3 2025 earnings at ($0.06) EPS, Q1 2026 earnings at $0.06 EPS, Q2 2026 earnings at $0.09 EPS and FY2029 earnings at $1.53 EPS.

A number of other research firms also recently weighed in on FM. Desjardins raised shares of First Quantum Minerals to a "hold" rating in a research report on Thursday, April 3rd. TD Securities raised their price objective on First Quantum Minerals from C$19.00 to C$20.00 and gave the company a "hold" rating in a research note on Thursday, February 13th. Royal Bank of Canada upped their price objective on First Quantum Minerals from C$23.00 to C$24.00 in a research note on Wednesday, January 8th. Raymond James raised their price target on shares of First Quantum Minerals from C$20.00 to C$21.00 in a research note on Friday. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. lowered their price target on shares of First Quantum Minerals from C$18.00 to C$17.00 in a research report on Thursday, January 30th. Eleven investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eight have assigned a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of "Hold" and an average target price of C$21.57.

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First Quantum Minerals Trading Up 1.0 %

TSE FM traded up C$0.15 on Thursday, reaching C$15.74. The company had a trading volume of 1,678,071 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,570,477. The firm has a market cap of C$8.93 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -5.82, a P/E/G ratio of -1.28 and a beta of 1.73. The business has a 50 day moving average of C$19.15 and a two-hundred day moving average of C$18.79. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 56.41, a current ratio of 1.80 and a quick ratio of 1.41. First Quantum Minerals has a fifty-two week low of C$13.81 and a fifty-two week high of C$23.28.

First Quantum Minerals (TSE:FM - Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, February 11th. The company reported C$0.04 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of C$0.03 by C$0.01. First Quantum Minerals had a negative net margin of 32.41% and a negative return on equity of 14.05%. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned ($0.37) earnings per share.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other First Quantum Minerals news, Senior Officer Zenon Wozniak sold 40,000 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of C$21.11, for a total transaction of C$844,400.00. Also, Director Alison Cheryl Beckett acquired 1,388 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction on Monday, March 31st. The stock was purchased at an average price of C$19.25 per share, with a total value of C$26,719.00. 19.35% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

First Quantum Minerals Company Profile

First Quantum Minerals Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration, development, and production of mineral properties. It primarily explores for copper, nickel, pyrite, silver, gold, and zinc ores, as well as produces acid. The company has operating mines located in Zambia, Panama, Finland, Turkey, Spain, Australia, and Mauritania, as well as a development project in Zambia.