Europe's mining giant reports amid borrowing cost surge and weakening momentum. Institutional flows remain bullish, but technical indicators suggest caution.
Short interest data is not available for BOL, limiting visibility into bearish positioning ahead of the Monday morning report. Cost to borrow sits at 1.10% as of April 23, up 21% over the past week. Utilisation has spiked to 15.37%, hitting a fresh 52-week high and more than tripling from the 4–5% range seen in early April.
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Consensus remains at hold across 14 analysts covering the stock. No price target or return potential data is available, and no recent rating changes have been published in the run-up to the print.
The stock trades at 12.1× trailing P/E, up 1.6 points over the past month as the share price has fallen 7%. Price-to-book sits at 1.78×, down from 1.84× thirty days ago. EV/EBITDA has compressed to 6.37×, up 0.91 points month-on-month. Boliden ranks in the 80th percentile on EPS surprise and 68th percentile on EV/EBIT. Analyst recommendation differential scores at the 7th percentile, dividend score at the 30th.
Insider activity is stale (180 days old). The most recent material trade was Swedbank Robur's 702,000-share sale in October 2025 worth $32 million. That same institution has since rebuilt its position and now holds 6.6% of shares outstanding as of December 2025, up 4.2 million shares. Vanguard and BlackRock each added over 4 million shares in Q1 2026, now holding 5.6% apiece. Alecta initiated a 3.0% position with 8.5 million shares.
Boliden has reported four times since early March, with events clustered tightly: March 5, March 18, March 20, and March 26. The stock is down 3.6% in the past day and 5.4% over the past week, reflecting a sharp reversal in momentum heading into Monday's release.
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