AngloGold Ashanti (AU) Stock Price, News & Analysis

7 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for AngloGold Ashanti in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings 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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7 analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for AngloGold Ashanti's shares. Their AU share price targets range from $18.00 to $27.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $23.40 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 39.6% from the stock's current price.
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AngloGold Ashanti's stock was trading at $19.42 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, AU shares have decreased by 13.7% and is now trading at $16.76.
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AngloGold Ashanti saw a increase in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 9,910,000 shares, an increase of 78.6% from the October 31st total of 5,550,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,550,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.9 days.
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AngloGold Ashanti plc (NYSE:AU) issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, February, 22nd. The mining company reported $0.16 earnings per share for the quarter. The mining company earned $1.06 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 dividend yield of 1.2%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 24th.
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AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE:AU) pays an annual dividend of $0.06 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.34%. The dividend payout ratio is 3.51%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, AU will have a dividend payout ratio of 4.32% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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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).

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's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Van ECK Associates Corp (5.95%), Oaktree Capital Management LP (1.30%), Mackenzie Financial Corp (0.74%), Morgan Stanley (0.47%), Deutsche Bank AG (0.38%) and Deutsche Bank AG (0.38%).
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