How to buy Sprott Focus Trust stock | $7.4

Sprott Focus Trust, Inc is an asset management business based in the US. Sprott Focus Trust shares (FUND) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars.

How to buy shares in Sprott Focus Trust

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Sprott Focus Trust. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: FUND. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Sprott Focus Trust reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$7.4, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Sprott Focus Trust, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Sprott Focus Trust. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Sprott Focus Trust share price

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Sprott Focus Trust shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-01-12.

Latest market close	USD$7.4
52-week range	USD$3.7394 - USD$7.52
50-day moving average	USD$6.9548
200-day moving average	USD$6.359
Wall St. target price	N/A
PE ratio	2.9526
Dividend yield	USD$0.55 (7.37%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$2.054

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Sprott Focus Trust price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $7.4 from 2021-01-11

1 week (2021-01-11)	7.4
1 month (2020-12-18)	6.78%
3 months (2020-10-16)	18.78%
6 months (2020-07-17)	22.07%

1 year (2020-01-17)	-0.94%
2 years (2019-01-18)	14.91%
3 years (2018-01-18)	8.21
5 years (2016-01-15)	45.38%

Is Sprott Focus Trust under- or over-valued?

Valuing Sprott Focus Trust stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Sprott Focus Trust's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Sprott Focus Trust's P/E ratio

Sprott Focus Trust's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 3x. In other words, Sprott Focus Trust shares trade at around 3x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Sprott Focus Trust financials

Revenue TTM	USD$5.5 million
Operating margin TTM	57.82%
Gross profit TTM	USD$5.6 million
Return on assets TTM	0.93%
Return on equity TTM	-1.26%
Profit margin	-46.92%
Book value	$6.929
Market capitalisation	USD$218.6 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Sprott Focus Trust shares

There are currently 9,771 Sprott Focus Trust shares held short by investors – that's known as Sprott Focus Trust's "short interest". This figure is 13.5% down from 11,302 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Sprott Focus Trust shares can be evaluated.

Sprott Focus Trust's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Sprott Focus Trust's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Sprott Focus Trust shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Sprott Focus Trust shares traded daily (recently around 44413.636363636). Sprott Focus Trust's SIR currently stands at 0.22. In other words for every 100,000 Sprott Focus Trust shares traded daily on the market, roughly 220 shares are currently held short.

However Sprott Focus Trust's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Sprott Focus Trust shares, or, against the total number of tradable Sprott Focus Trust shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Sprott Focus Trust's short interest could be expressed as 0% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Sprott Focus Trust shares in existence, roughly 0 shares are currently held short) or 0.0006% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Sprott Focus Trust shares, roughly 1 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Sprott Focus Trust.

Find out more about how you can short Sprott Focus Trust stock.

Sprott Focus Trust's environmental, social and governance track record

Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Sprott Focus Trust.

When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.

Sprott Focus Trust's total ESG risk score

Total ESG risk: 33.66

Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Sprott Focus Trust's overall score of 33.66 (as at 01/01/2019) is excellent – landing it in it in the 6th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.

ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Sprott Focus Trust is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).

Sprott Focus Trust's environmental score

Environmental score: 9.8/100

Sprott Focus Trust's environmental score of 9.8 puts it squarely in the 6th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Sprott Focus Trust is a leader in its sector terms of its environmental impact, and exposed to a lower level of risk.

Sprott Focus Trust's social score

Social score: 9.97/100

Sprott Focus Trust's social score of 9.97 puts it squarely in the 6th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Sprott Focus Trust is a leader in its sector when it comes to taking good care of its workforce and the communities it impacts.

Sprott Focus Trust's governance score

Governance score: 7.19/100

Sprott Focus Trust's governance score puts it squarely in the 6th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. That could suggest that Sprott Focus Trust is a leader in its sector when it comes to responsible management and strategy, and exposed to a lower level of risk.

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) summary

Sprott Focus Trust, Inc was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.

Total ESG score	33.66
Total ESG percentile	6
Environmental score	9.8
Environmental score percentile	6
Social score	9.97
Social score percentile	6
Governance score	7.19
Governance score percentile	6

Sprott Focus Trust share dividends

We're not expecting Sprott Focus Trust to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Sprott Focus Trust share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Sprott Focus Trust's shares have ranged in value from as little as $3.7394 up to $7.52. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Sprott Focus Trust's is 1.26. This would suggest that Sprott Focus Trust's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Sprott Focus Trust overview

Sprott Focus Trust, Inc. is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Sprott Asset Management, LP. The fund is co-managed by Sprott Asset Management USA Inc. It invests in the public equity markets of the United States. The fund seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It primarily invests in value stocks of companies across all market capitalizations. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Russell 3000 Index. It was formerly known as Royce Focus Trust, Inc. Sprott Focus Trust, Inc. was formed on March 2, 1988 and is domiciled in the United States.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Sprott Focus Trust is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 42.523% of Sprott Focus Trust shares are held by insiders and 24.12% by institutions.

• When does the fiscal year end for Sprott Focus Trust?

  Sprott Focus Trust's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Sprott Focus Trust based?

  Sprott Focus Trust's address is: Royal Bank Plaza, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5J 2J1

• What is Sprott Focus Trust's ISIN number?

  Sprott Focus Trust's international securities identification number is: US85208J1097

• What is Sprott Focus Trust's CUSIP number?

  Sprott Focus Trust's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 01663K101