VGZ Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Vista Gold | AMEX:VGZ)

Vista Gold Corp operates as a development-stage company in the gold mining industry. Its flagship asset is the Mt Todd Gold Project, a development-stage gold deposit located in the Tier-1 jurisdiction of Northern Territory, Australia. Mt Todd offers a large gold mineral reserve, development optionality, expansion opportunities, exploration upside, local infrastructure, community support, and demonstrated economic feasibility. It operates in one reportable segment, consisting of acquisition, exploration and evaluation activities which are focused on Australia.

Vista Gold trades on the AMEX stock market under the symbol VGZ.

As of October 6, 2026, VGZ stock price climbed to $2.67 with 1,436,665 million shares trading.

VGZ has a beta of 2.51, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. VGZ has a correlation of 0.14 to the broad based SPY ETF.

VGZ has a market cap of $389.74 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, VGZ traded as high as $3.13 and as low as $.30.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that VGZ belongs to (by Net Assets): IWM, GDXJ, IWO, VTWO, IWC.

VGZ has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +23.6%, while the SPY ETF gained +17.9%. In the last 3 month period, VGZ beat the market returning +45.9%, while SPY returned +5.1%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks VGZ has underperformed the stock market by returning -2.6%, while SPY returned +1.0%.

VGZ support price is $2.50 and resistance is $2.72 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that VGZ shares will trade within this expected range on the day.