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Solitario Zinc Corp.

$XPL·$68M·Industrial Materials·Basic Materials
$0.82+0.9%YTD+0.1%1Y+6.4%
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2026-08-20: 101 posts2026-08-21: 226 posts2026-08-22: 72 posts583+14%
Price updated 2d ago·X counts updated 8d ago
XPXPL
$XPLSolitario Zinc Corp.
$0.82+0.91%583 posts+14%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $XPL, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Too early to tellStalledAI verdict · as of 2026-08-30

The move has stalled — likely just drifts unless something new shows up.

Micro-cap zinc explorer with no revenue and a crypto-token feed — this ticker's real signal is basically zero.

Solitario Zinc/Resources is a very small mineral-exploration company advancing the Ponderosa drilling program — no product revenue, no earnings, and roughly $70M of market cap at a share price under a dollar. The stock has ripped over the trailing year on lithium/critical-minerals interest but has been flat YTD.

  • Financials are pre-revenue by design: zero revenue for four straight quarters, quarterly EPS at pennies negative, and analysts model zero revenue and a $-0.05 full-year loss — that's a mineral explorer's shape, not a going concern's.
  • The catalyst engine is entirely drilling news: the Ponderosa 2026 drilling program is the news line that would matter, and a recent broker rating upgrade to Buy is the sell-side counterpart — neither of which changes the fact that the equity is a call option on an exploration result, not a business.
  • The X ticker signal here is unusable: virtually every $XPL post is about the Plasma crypto token forming a base with a CHoCH break — none of it is about the mining equity, so the sentiment score is not comparable and treating it as directional would be a mistake.

A fresh Ponderosa drill result that confirms grade continuity is what would restart the equity narrative on the mining side; without new drilling news, the stock drifts, and the crypto-token chatter around the ticker doesn't move the equity in either direction.

What to watch: The next Ponderosa drill result and any resource-estimate update; a Nov 4 filing may accompany the print but the real catalyst is drilling news, not the P&L.

On the calendar: 2026-11-04 — quarterly filing

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X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bullish sentiment50 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-29

$XPL (Plasma) chatter is bullish among crypto traders. Posters flag XPL forming a 200-day base with a fourth retest of the $0.11 s/r level, daily structure flipping bullish for the first time this year with a CHoCH break, and a spot bag being accumulated in the OTE pocket. Upcoming token unlocks ($8.8M this week) are noted as a risk, but the crowd frames the setup as inverse H&S bottoming with HTF dynamics in favor. No meaningful bear voice.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Exploration-stage junior mining company with zinc and base metal projects in Peru and Brazil.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Industrial Materials sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $XPL.

Industrial Materials · Basic Materials

No material change from last week — MP Materials and USARE (US Rare Earths) benefit from the US domestic rare earth supply chain buildout as defense and EV applications require secure non-Chinese..

What this means for $XPL

Neutral — Exploration-stage junior mining company with zinc and base metal projects in Peru and Brazil; limited read-through from industrial materials macro dynamics to this specific revenue mix.

Industry benchmark

16-name peer basket
+11.1%YTD
+74.4%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
-19.4How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
-16.6%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
0.0%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
-4.5%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
0.0Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
-15.1%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
0.0%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.0Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Aug 6, 2026$-0.02$-0.01-100.0%
Q1 2026May 6, 2026$-0.01$-0.010.0%
Q4 2025Mar 5, 2026$-0.01$-0.010.0%
Q3 2025Oct 29, 2025$-0.02$-0.01-100.0%
Next earningsWed, Nov 4·consensus EPS $-0.03

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$0———$-0.01$-1.2M
Q4 FY25$0———$-0.01$-532K
Q3 FY25$0———$-0.02$-1.7M
Q2 FY25$0———$-0.01$0

Forward consensus

2-year forecast
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$0$0 – $0-$0.06-$0.06 – -$0.040
FY27$0$0 – $0-$0.07-$0.07 – -$0.070

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.1.1×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.64%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+7.3%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+7.2%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 70.0M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.1% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β0.485-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KShareholder voteJun 188-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

Solitario Resources Corp. held its 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders on June 17, 2026, with 51,707,349 shares represented; six directors were elected including John Labate (99.34% for), James Hesketh (90.38% for), and Christopher Herald; a corporate investor presentation was also furnished under Reg FD. Annual governance meeting plus investor relations update for this Colorado-based mining company with gold and platinum-group metal projects.

8-KMaterial eventJun 48-K — Item 4.01
AI summary

XPL (XPL) filed an 8-K under Item 8.01 (other events) to disclose a material corporate event. The filing involves a transaction or event valued at approximately $0. The disclosure covers information the company determined was material and required prompt public disclosure under SEC reporting obligations. Item 8.01 and Item 7.01 filings cover events not specifically addressed by other 8-K items but considered significant enough to warrant prompt investor notification.

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Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Solitario Resources (TSE:SLR) Stock Price Passes Below 200 Day Moving Average – What’s Next?defenseworld.net·17d agoInteractive Brokers Builds Out One of the Most Comprehensive and Low-Cost Solutions for Accessing Cryptocurrency Availablegurufocus.com·48d agoSolitario (XPL) Upgraded to Buy: What Does It Mean for the Stock?zacks.com·66d agoVoting Results from Solitario Resources Corp Annual Meeting Held June 17, 2026accessnewswire.com·74d agoSolitario Advances 2026 Ponderosa Drilling Programaccessnewswire.com·75d ago

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