AngloGold Ashanti (AU) Stock Forecast, Price & News

5 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for AngloGold Ashanti in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 1 hold rating and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" AU shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in AU, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for AngloGold Ashanti's shares. Their AU share price forecasts range from $22.00 to $27.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $25.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 37.7% from the stock's current price.
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AngloGold Ashanti's stock was trading at $19.42 at the beginning of the year. Since then, AU stock has decreased by 6.5% and is now trading at $18.15.
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AngloGold Ashanti saw a increase in short interest in August. As of August 15th, there was short interest totaling 7,300,000 shares, an increase of 7.0% from the July 31st total of 6,820,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,280,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.2 days.
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AngloGold Ashanti Limited (NYSE:AU) posted its earnings results on Friday, August, 4th. The mining company reported $0.17 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.55 by $0.38. The mining company earned $1.16 billion during the quarter.

AngloGold Ashanti declared a Semi-Annual dividend on Monday, August 14th. Investors of record on Friday, August 25th will be given a dividend of $0.029 per share on Monday, September 18th. This represents a yield of 1.2%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 24th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE:AU) stock in their portfolio include WisdomTree Efficient Gold Plus Gold Miners Strategy Fund (GDMN), VanEck Gold Miners ETF (GDX), Sprott Gold Miners ETF (SGDM) and U.S. Global GO GOLD and Precious Metal Miners ETF (GOAU).VanEck Africa Index ETF (AFK).

AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE:AU) pays an annual dividend of $0.06 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.32%.
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3 employees have rated AngloGold Ashanti Chief Executive Officer Christine Ramon on Glassdoor.com. Christine Ramon has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Christine Ramon in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other AngloGold Ashanti investors own include Goldcorp (GG), Broadwind (BWEN), Barrick Gold (GOLD), Hawkins (HWKN), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Newmont (NEM), Micron Technology (MU), Cisco Systems (CSCO), NVIDIA (NVDA) and Kinross Gold (KGC).

AngloGold Ashanti trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AU."

AngloGold Ashanti's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Van ECK Associates Corp (5.86%), BlackRock Inc. (2.43%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.82%), TT International Asset Management LTD (0.75%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.68%) and Mackenzie Financial Corp (0.61%).
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Shares of AU stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of AU stock can currently be purchased for approximately $18.15.

AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE:AU) has a market capitalization of $7.60 billion and generates $4.50 billion in revenue each year.

The company employs 32,594 workers across the globe.

AngloGold Ashanti's mailing address is 76 Rahima Moosa Street Newtown, Johannesburg T3, 2001. The official website for the company is www.anglogoldashanti.com. The mining company can be reached via phone at (711) 637-6000, via email at investors@anglogoldashanti.com, or via fax at 27-11-637-6624.