LON:AZN - AstraZeneca Share Price, Forecast & News

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

AstraZeneca declared a dividend on Friday, February 14th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, February 27th will be given a dividend of GBX 146.40 per share on Monday, March 30th. This represents a yield of 1.92%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 27th. This is an increase from AstraZeneca's previous dividend of $71.90. The official announcement can be seen at this link. View AstraZeneca's Dividend History.

16 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for AstraZeneca's shares. Their forecasts range from GBX 5,800 to £100. On average, they expect AstraZeneca's share price to reach GBX 7,890.71 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 4.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for AstraZeneca.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for AstraZeneca in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 2 hold ratings and 11 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for AstraZeneca.

Media headlines about AZN stock have been trending somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. AstraZeneca earned a media sentiment score of -1.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the biopharmaceutical company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for AstraZeneca.

Some companies that are related to AstraZeneca include GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Bayer (BAYN), Dechra Pharmaceuticals (DPH), Hutchison China MediTech (HCM), Opthea (OPT), Medical Developments International (MVP), Mayne Pharma Group (MYX), Vectura Group (VEC), BEXIMCO PHARMAC/S GDR REGS (BXP), Eco Animal Health Group (EAH), Trilogy International Partners (TRL), Allergy Therapeutics (AGY), Recce Pharmaceuticals (RCE), NanoViricides (NNVC) and Pharmaxis (PXS).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other AstraZeneca investors own include GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Vodafone Group (VOD), NVIDIA (NVDA), National Retail Properties (NNN), BP (BP), Marks and Spencer Group (MKS), Royal Dutch Shell (RDSB), Encana (ECA) and Philip Morris International (PM).

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 7,574.

AstraZeneca has a market capitalization of £99.39 billion and generates £24.14 billion in revenue each year. AstraZeneca employs 64,400 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About AstraZeneca.

The official website for AstraZeneca is http://www.astrazeneca.com/.

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.