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

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

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

24 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month target prices for AstraZeneca's stock. Their predictions range from GBX 3,750 to GBX 6,500. On average, they expect AstraZeneca's share price to reach GBX 5,368.27 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for AstraZeneca.

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News coverage about AZN stock has trended somewhat positive this week, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. Accern identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. AstraZeneca earned a daily sentiment score of 0.11 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news stories about the biopharmaceutical company an impact score of 45.41 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

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 5,363.

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.