HL - Hecla Mining Company
Hecla Mining Company, together with its subsidiaries, discovers, acquires, develops, and produces precious and base metal properties in the United States and internationally. The company mines for silver, gold, lead, and zinc concentrates, as well as carbon material containing silver and gold for sale to custom smelters, metal traders, and third-party processors,; and doré containing silver and gold. It owns 100% interests in the Greens Creek mine located on Admiralty Island in southeast Alaska; the Lucky Friday mine situated in northern Idaho; the Casa Berardi mine located in the Abitibi region of northwestern Quebec, Canada; and the San Sebastian mine situated in the city of Durango, Mexico.
As of May 15, 2026: spot at $17.68, ATM IV 69.8%, max pain $19.00, net GEX $1.5M.
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Gold
- Market Cap
- $14.12B
- P/E Ratio
- 51.54
- Beta
- 1.26
- 52-Week Range
- 4.71-34.17
- Dividend Yield
- $0.01
- CEO
- Robert L. Krcmarov
- Employees
- 1,830
- IPO Date
- Mar 17, 1980
- Exchange
- NYSE
What HL Looks Like to Options Traders Today
IV rank of 42.8% sits near the 1-year median, where strategy choice depends on directional conviction and the event calendar rather than vol regime alone; positive net gamma exposure ($1.5M) means dealers hedge against trend, damping realized volatility and biasing price toward heavy-OI strikes; the 25-delta skew (-0.044) prices puts richer than calls, the typical equity downside-protection skew.
What This Page Covers
The HL overview links into per-metric analysis views: max pain, gamma exposure, volatility skew, expected move, options chain, open interest history, and aggregate Greeks. Microstructure data is available on short interest, short volume, fail-to-deliver, and market structure. Corporate data is on fundamentals, earnings, analyst ratings, and insider trading.
Frequently asked HL overview questions
- What is HL?
- HL is the ticker symbol for Hecla Mining Company, a listed security. Hecla Mining Company, together with its subsidiaries, discovers, acquires, develops, and produces precious and base metal properties in the United States and internationally. The company mines for silver, gold, lead, and zinc concentrates, as well as carbon material containing silver and gold for sale to custom smelters, metal traders, and third-party processors,; and doré containing silver and gold. Listed on NYSE. HL is the equity ticker shown on this page; equity options traders use the security for directional, volatility, and income strategies via the listed options chain.
- What does the HL options snapshot look like today?
- As of May 15, 2026, the HL options snapshot shows spot at $17.68, ATM IV 69.8%, IV rank 42.8%, max pain $19.00, net GEX $1.5M, expected move 20.02%. The full options chain, Greeks by strike and expiration, per-strike open-interest distribution, dealer gamma and delta exposure, and the volatility skew surface are linked from this overview page. Each per-metric route refreshes once per trading session and reflects the most recent close-of-business listed-options state.
- What are HL's key statistics?
- Hecla Mining Company (HL) carries a market capitalization of $14.12B, trailing P/E ratio of 51.54, beta of 1.26 relative to the broader market, 52-week range of 4.71-34.17. Full income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and TTM ratio history is on the per-ticker fundamentals page; daily price history and 52-week levels are accessible from the same view. These structural inputs frame how the options market prices implied volatility around earnings windows and capital events.
- What sector or industry does HL belong to?
- Hecla Mining Company operates in the Basic Materials sector, in the Gold industry. Sector classification affects how the ticker correlates with sector ETFs, how it reacts to macro factors like rate moves and commodity prices, and how its options pricing compares to sector peers. Compare HL's implied volatility and skew against sector benchmarks to gauge whether the options market is pricing single-name or systemic risk relative to the broader peer group.
- How current is the HL data on this page?
- The options snapshot above is dated May 15, 2026 and refreshes once per session, with all per-strike Greeks and exposure aggregates recomputed at the daily close. Company-profile fields (sector, industry, market cap, P/E, IPO date) refresh from the vendor feed nightly. Financials and earnings refresh as 10-K and 10-Q filings are parsed (typically within several business days of the actual report). FINRA microstructure data refreshes on the source's cadence (daily for short volume, bi-monthly for short interest, weekly for the OTC volume file, twice-monthly for SEC FTD).