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. Investors 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 a boost 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 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 3.3%. 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, according to Accern Sentiment. Accern scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. AstraZeneca earned a media sentiment score of 0.11 on Accern's scale. They also gave media stories about the biopharmaceutical company an impact score of 49.67 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days.

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 5,629.

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.