Anglo American (AAL) Share Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Anglo American is a leading global mining company focused on the responsible production of copper, premium iron ore and crop nutrients – future-enabling products that are essential for decarbonising the global economy, improving living standards, and food security. Our portfolio of world-class operations and outstanding resource endowments offers value-accretive growth potential across all three businesses, positioning us to deliver into structurally attractive major demand growth trends. Our integrated approach to sustainability and innovation drives our decision-making across the value chain, from how we discover new resources to how we mine, process, move and market our products to our customers – safely, efficiently and responsibly. Our Sustainable Mining Plan commits us to a series of stretching goals over different time horizons to ensure we contribute to a healthy environment, create thriving communities and build trust as a corporate leader. We work together with our business partners and diverse stakeholders to unlock enduring value from precious natural resources for our shareholders, for the benefit of the communities and countries in which we operate, and for society as a whole. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives. Anglo American is currently implementing a number of major structural changes to unlock the inherent value in its portfolio and thereby accelerate delivery of its strategic priorities of Operational excellence, Portfolio simplification, and Growth. This portfolio transformation will focus Anglo American on its world-class resource asset base in copper, premium iron ore and crop nutrients.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: 3,809.50 to 3,859
• 50-Day Range: 2,879 to 3,839
• 52-Week Range: 1,987.20 to 3,940
• Volume: 63.14 million shs
• Average Volume: 45.55 million shs
• Market Capitalization: £40.96 billion
• P/E Ratio: N/A
• Dividend Yield: 0.47%
• Price Target: GBX 3,125.71
• Consensus Rating: Hold

Anglo American Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Anglo American scored higher than 22% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 1.6 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Hold

Consensus Rating

Anglo American has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.43, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 4 buy ratings, 2 hold ratings, and 1 sell rating.

Downside Risk

Anglo American has a consensus price target of GBX 3,125.71, representing about 18.2% downside from its current price of GBX 3,823.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Anglo American has only been the subject of 2 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Anglo American is -11.58, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Anglo American is -11.58, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Anglo American has a PEG Ratio of 2.05. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Anglo American has a P/B Ratio of 1.50. P/B Ratios below 3 indicates that a company is reasonably valued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for AAL.

Dividend

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Yield

Anglo American has a dividend yield of 0.47%, which is in the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

Anglo American does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

News and Social Media

• Score: 3.3 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.24

News Sentiment

Anglo American has a news sentiment score of 0.24. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.56 average news sentiment score of Basic Materials companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 5 news articles for Anglo American this week, compared to 2 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

83 people have searched for AAL on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 24% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

1 people have added Anglo American to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 2.8 / 5
• Insider Trading: Acquiring Shares

Cluster Insider Buying

3 insiders have purchased shares of Anglo American in the last three months. Multiple insiders buying is a strong bullish signal.

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Anglo American insiders have bought more of their company's stock than they have sold. Specifically, they have bought £16,575.89 in company stock and sold GBX 0 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

0.43% of the stock of Anglo American is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

51.62% of the stock of Anglo American is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

AAL Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How have AAL shares performed this year?

Anglo American's stock was trading at GBX 3,085 at the start of the year. Since then, AAL stock has increased by 23.9% and is now trading at GBX 3,823.

How do I buy shares of Anglo American?

Shares of AAL stock and other U.K. stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSX). Some U.K. companies can be purchased through major U.S. brokerages in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are placeholder equities held in a trust by a bank that represent shares of a foreign stock.

What other stocks do shareholders of Anglo American own?

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that Anglo American investors own include Hastings Group Holdings plc (HSTG.L) (HSTG), Renishaw (RSW), Spirent Communications (SPT), Rio Tinto Group (RIO), Rotork (ROR), Anglo American (NGLOY) and Glencore (GLEN).

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: LON
• Sector: Basic Materials
• Industry: Other Industrial Metals & Mining
• Sub-Industry: Transportation
• Current Symbol: LON:AAL
• CIK: N/A
• Web: www.angloamerican.com
• Phone: +44-20-79688888
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 129,700
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Anglo American: GBX 3,125.71
• High Price Target: GBX 4,500
• Low Price Target: GBX 1,900
• Potential Upside/Downside: -18.2%
• Consensus Rating: Hold
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.43
• Research Coverage: 7 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): GBX (330)
• Trailing P/E Ratio: N/A
• Forward P/E Ratio: 22.14
• P/E Growth: 2.05
• Net Income: -£2.07 billion
• Net Margins: -20.20%
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: -20.10%
• Return on Assets: 5.94%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 91.60
• Current Ratio: 1.98
• Quick Ratio: 1.28

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: £18.55 billion
• Price / Sales: 2.21
• Cash Flow: GBX 892.62 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 4.28
• Book Value: GBX 2,546.53 per share
• Price / Book: 1.50

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 1,071,488,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: £40.96 billion
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 0.94