AngloGold Ashanti (AU) Stock Forecast, Price & News

4 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for AngloGold Ashanti in the last year. There are currently 2 sell 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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4 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for AngloGold Ashanti's shares. Their AU share price forecasts range from $27.00 to $27.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $27.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.3% 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 stock has increased by 28.4% and is now trading at $24.94.
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AngloGold Ashanti saw a increase in short interest in May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 7,880,000 shares, an increase of 10.5% from the April 30th total of 7,130,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 3,540,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.2 days.
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AngloGold Ashanti Limited (NYSE:AU) released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, February, 22nd. The mining company reported $0.16 EPS for the quarter. The mining company earned $1.06 billion during the quarter.

AngloGold Ashanti announced a semi-annual dividend on Wednesday, February 22nd. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 17th will be paid a dividend of $0.177 per share on Monday, April 10th. This represents a dividend yield of 2.4%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 16th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE:AU) stock in their portfolio include U.S. Global GO GOLD and Precious Metal Miners ETF (GOAU), WisdomTree Efficient Gold Plus Gold Miners Strategy Fund (GDMN), VanEck Gold Miners ETF (GDX), VanEck Africa Index ETF (AFK), Sprott Gold Miners ETF (SGDM), Donoghue Forlines Yield Enhanced Real Asset ETF (DFRA), Virtus Real Asset Income ETF (VRAI) and Alpha Architect Freedom 100 Emerging Market ETF (FRDM).

AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE:AU) pays an annual dividend of $0.29 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.17%.
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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 a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Van ECK Associates Corp (6.47%), BlackRock Inc. (2.38%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.99%), Coronation Fund Managers Ltd. (0.94%), Mackenzie Financial Corp (0.86%) and Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.82%).
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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 $24.94.

AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE:AU) has a market capitalization of $10.44 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.