AstraZeneca Stock Price, News & Analysis (LON:AZN)

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

AstraZeneca declared a dividend on Thursday, July 25th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, August 8th will be given a dividend of GBX 71.90 per share on Monday, September 9th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.07%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 8th. The official announcement can be seen at this link. View AstraZeneca's Dividend History.

AstraZeneca is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for AstraZeneca.

18 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for AstraZeneca's stock. Their forecasts range from GBX 5,500 to £100. On average, they expect AstraZeneca's stock price to reach GBX 7,137.81 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 4.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for AstraZeneca.

18 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 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for AstraZeneca.

Media coverage about AZN stock has trended very negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. AstraZeneca earned a coverage optimism score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the biopharmaceutical company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. 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), Mayne Pharma Group (MYX), Vectura Group (VEC), Medical Developments International (MVP), Eco Animal Health Group (EAH), BEXIMCO PHARMAC/S GDR REGS (BXP), Trilogy International Partners (TRL), Pharmaxis (PXS), Allergy Therapeutics (AGY), Futura Medical (FUM) and Vita Life Sciences (VLS).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other AstraZeneca investors own include GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Vodafone Group (VOD), Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), National Retail Properties (NNN), NVIDIA (NVDA), 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 6,822.

AstraZeneca has a market capitalization of £89.50 billion and generates £23.07 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.