AngloGold Ashanti - AU Stock Forecast, Price & News

3 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for AngloGold Ashanti in the last year. There are currently 1 sell 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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3 Wall Street research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for AngloGold Ashanti's shares. Their AU share price forecasts range from $20.00 to $24.20. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $22.10 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 21.7% from the stock's current price.
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AngloGold Ashanti's stock was trading at $20.98 at the beginning of 2022. Since then, AU stock has decreased by 13.4% and is now trading at $18.16.
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AngloGold Ashanti saw a increase in short interest in the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 6,940,000 shares, an increase of 12.7% from the October 15th total of 6,160,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,980,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.3 days.
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AngloGold Ashanti Limited (NYSE:AU) issued its earnings results on Monday, February, 22nd. The mining company reported $0.16 earnings per share for the quarter. The mining company had revenue of $1.06 billion for the quarter.

AngloGold Ashanti announced a semi-annual dividend on Monday, August 8th. Shareholders of record on Friday, August 26th will be paid a dividend of $0.2935 per share on Monday, September 19th. This represents a dividend yield of 2.7%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 25th. This is a boost from the stock's previous semi-annual dividend of $0.14.
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AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE:AU) pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.51%.
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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 variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Van ECK Associates Corp (5.62%), BlackRock Inc. (2.42%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (2.41%), Coronation Fund Managers Ltd. (1.42%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.08%) and Paulson & CO. Inc. (0.95%).
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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 $18.16.

AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE:AU) has a market capitalization of $7.59 billion and generates $4.03 billion in revenue each year.

The company employs 30,561 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.