NYSE:AUYYamana Gold Stock Price, Forecast & News

Yamana Gold's stock was trading at $3.62 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, AUY stock has increased by 48.1% and is now trading at $5.36. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Yamana Gold in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Yamana Gold.

Yamana Gold is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 23rd 2020. View our earnings forecast for Yamana Gold.

Yamana Gold Inc. (NYSE:AUY) announced its earnings results on Thursday, April, 30th. The basic materials company reported $0.05 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.03 by $0.02. The basic materials company earned $356.50 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $352.22 million. Yamana Gold had a return on equity of 3.44% and a net margin of 17.61%. Yamana Gold's revenue for the quarter was down 12.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.02 EPS. View Yamana Gold's earnings history.

Yamana Gold declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, May 1st. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, June 30th will be paid a dividend of $0.0625 per share on Tuesday, July 14th. This represents a $0.25 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.66%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, June 29th. This is an increase from Yamana Gold's previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. View Yamana Gold's dividend history.

10 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for Yamana Gold's stock. Their forecasts range from $3.50 to $6.50. On average, they anticipate Yamana Gold's share price to reach $4.84 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 9.6%. View analysts' price targets for Yamana Gold.

News headlines about AUY stock have trended very positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm ranks the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Yamana Gold earned a news impact score of 4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the basic materials company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View the latest news aboutYamana Gold.

Yamana Gold saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 15,130,000 shares, an increase of 31.2% from the April 30th total of 11,530,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 26,750,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 0.6 days. Currently, 1.6% of the company's shares are sold short. View Yamana Gold's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Yamana Gold include Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Kirkland Lake Gold (KL), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Gold Fields (GFI), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Sibanye Gold (SBGL), Alamos Gold (AGI), First Majestic Silver (AG), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Iamgold (IAG), Osisko gold royalties (OR), Eldorado Gold (EGO) and Coeur Mining (CDE). View all competitors.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Yamana Gold investors own include General Electric (GE), First Majestic Silver (AG), Kinross Gold (KGC), Yamana Gold (YRI), AT&T (T), Barrick Gold (GOLD), Intel (INTC), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Bank of America (BAC) and Cisco Systems (CSCO).

Yamana Gold trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AUY."

Yamana Gold's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Van ECK Associates Corp (12.00%), Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. (1.47%), Mackenzie Financial Corp (1.20%), Two Sigma Advisers LP (0.93%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (0.83%) and Ruffer LLP (0.75%).

AUY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley, Van ECK Associates Corp, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Two Sigma Investments LP, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Donald Smith & CO. Inc., and Toronto Dominion Bank.

AUY stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Ruffer LLP, Two Sigma Advisers LP, Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd., Mackenzie Financial Corp, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Artemis Investment Management LLP, BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA, and 1832 Asset Management L.P..

Shares of AUY can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of AUY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $5.36.

Yamana Gold has a market capitalization of $5.10 billion and generates $1.61 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $225.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.13 on an earnings per share basis. Yamana Gold employs 5,165 workers across the globe.

The official website for Yamana Gold is www.yamana.com.

Yamana Gold's mailing address is ROYAL BANK PLAZA NORTH TOWER 200 BAY STREET SUITE 2200, TORONTO A6, M5J2J3. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at 416-815-0220 or via email at [email protected]