Hecla Mining (HL)

Basic Materials · Other Precious Metals & Mining
$17.10 +0.53% on the day Market cap $8.9B 52-week range $11.81 to $34.17 Prices as of Oct 7, 2026

What the price implies

A reverse DCF: instead of guessing a fair value, it asks what growth today's price already assumes. How it works.

Free cash flow growth the price needs
10% a year for 10 years

At a market value of $8.9B, Hecla Mining's free cash flow of $310M (fiscal 2025) would need to grow about 10% a year for the stock to be worth today's price. That is slower than the company has grown its free cash flow over the last 9 years.

Assumes a 9% discount rate and 3% growth after year 10, on free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital spending) from Hecla Mining's SEC filings. Change any assumption, or model revenue and margins instead, in the Modeling tab, or try your own numbers in the reverse DCF calculator.

Implied by the price9.7% a year
Free cash flow, last 9 years19.9% a year
Revenue, same period9.2% a year
Price to free cash flow28.7x

Fundamental grade

B

Five factors scored 1 to 9 from HL's latest numbers, weighted into one grade. It describes the business, not whether the stock is a buy.

Valuation6
Profitability7
Growth7
Financial health9
Cash efficiency9

Key numbers

P/E (trailing)19.3x
P/E (forward)16.6x
Price / free cash flow28.7x
EV / EBITDA10.7x
Price / sales5.56x
Price / book3.74x
Revenue growth+9.8%
Operating margin46.0%
Net margin20.8%
Return on equity12.5%
Dividend yield0.11%
Debt / equity0.19x

Results from SEC filings

Fiscal years, from Hecla Mining's 10-K filings. The deep dive has 15+ years, quarters and every line.

Fiscal year20212022202320242025
Revenue$807M$719M$720M$930M$1.4B
Net income$35M-$37M-$84M$36M$322M
Free cash flow$111M-$59M-$148M$4M$310M
EPS (diluted)$0.06-$0.07-$0.14$0.06$0.49
Operating margin10.3%-1.7%-6.2%11.4%36.2%

Where the revenue comes from

Revenue by segments, fiscal 2023.

Greens Creek$385M53%
Casa Berardi$178M25%
Lucky Friday$116M16%
Keno Hill$36M5%
Other Segments$5M1%
Nevada Operations$960,0000%

Superinvestors who own HL

From each investor's latest 13F filing (what a 13F shows). 3 of the investors we track hold it.

InvestorLast quarterValue% of portfolioQuarter
Cliff Asness
AQR Capital Management
Trimmed $19M0.01%Q2 2026
Jean-Marie Eveillard
First Eagle Investment Management
Trimmed $6M0.01%Q2 2026
Joel Greenblatt
Gotham Asset Management
Added $5M0.01%Q2 2026

Insider buying

Open-market purchases by Hecla Mining's executives and directors in the last 12 months, from SEC Form 4 filings. What insider buying tells you.

No open-market insider purchases of HL in the last 12 months. Most insider activity is selling and option exercises, which aren't shown here.

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In the full deep dive

DCF fair value per share
Yearly return (IRR) at today's price
Growth implied by revenue and margins
15+ years of statements and quarters

Questions

What growth does Hecla Mining's stock price imply?

At a market value of $8.9B, Hecla Mining would need its free cash flow to grow about 10% a year for 10 years (discounted at 9%, 3% growth after that) to be worth today's price. Over the last 9 years its free cash flow grew 20% a year.

Are Hecla Mining insiders buying the stock?

No open-market insider purchases of HL in the last 12 months, according to SEC Form 4 filings.

Which superinvestors own Hecla Mining?

3 of the superinvestors Investingly tracks hold HL in their latest 13F, including Cliff Asness, Jean-Marie Eveillard, Joel Greenblatt.

Prices and ratios as of Oct 7, 2026; statements from SEC filings. Information only, not investment advice. Superinvestor holdings come from 13F filings, which are filed up to 45 days after each quarter ends.