LON:AZN - AstraZeneca Stock Price, Price Target & More

AstraZeneca trades on the London Stock Exchange (LON) under the ticker symbol "AZN."

AstraZeneca declared a dividend on Friday, February 2nd. Investors of record on Thursday, February 15th will be given a dividend of GBX 133.60 per share on Monday, March 19th. This represents a dividend yield of 2.8%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 15th. This is a boost from AstraZeneca's previous dividend of $68.90. The official announcement can be seen at this link. View AstraZeneca's Dividend History.

24 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for AstraZeneca's stock. Their predictions range from GBX 3,750 to GBX 6,500. On average, they anticipate AstraZeneca's stock price to reach GBX 5,445.55 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.9%. View Analyst Ratings for AstraZeneca.

24 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for AstraZeneca in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 15 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."

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Press coverage about AZN stock has been trending somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. AstraZeneca earned a media sentiment score of 0.07 on Accern's scale. They also gave news headlines about the biopharmaceutical company an impact score of 45.56 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term.

Shares of AZN 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.

One share of AZN stock can currently be purchased for approximately GBX 5,606.

AstraZeneca has a market capitalization of £61.66 billion.

AstraZeneca's mailing address is 1 Francis Crick Avenue Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 0AA, United Kingdom. The biopharmaceutical company can be reached via phone at +44-20-73045000.