Yamana Gold Stock Forecast, Price & News

Yamana Gold's stock was trading at $3.62 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, AUY shares have increased by 44.5% and is now trading at $5.23.
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12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Yamana Gold in the last twelve months. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" Yamana Gold stock.
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6,978 employees have rated Yamana Gold CEO Larry J. Merlo on Glassdoor.com. Larry J. Merlo has an approval rating of 37% among Yamana Gold's employees. This puts Larry J. Merlo in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Yamana Gold is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 11th 2021.
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Yamana Gold will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 11th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Yamana Gold Inc. (NYSE:AUY) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 29th. The basic materials company reported $0.10 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.08 by $0.02. The basic materials company earned $439.40 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $450.33 million. Yamana Gold had a net margin of 7.77% and a return on equity of 5.42%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 22.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.05 earnings per share.
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Yamana Gold announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, November 2nd. Investors of record on Thursday, December 31st will be given a dividend of $0.0263 per share on Thursday, January 14th. This represents a $0.11 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.01%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 30th. This is a positive change from Yamana Gold's previous quarterly dividend of $0.02.
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Yamana Gold pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.90%. Yamana Gold has been increasing its dividend for 2 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Yamana Gold is 76.92%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, Yamana Gold will have a dividend payout ratio of 24.39% next year. This indicates that Yamana Gold will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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12 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Yamana Gold's shares. Their forecasts range from $3.75 to $9.00. On average, they expect Yamana Gold's share price to reach $6.95 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 32.8% from the stock's current price.
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Yamana Gold saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totaling 9,420,000 shares, an increase of 18.5% from the December 15th total of 7,950,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 14,250,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.7 days. Currently, 1.0% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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Some companies that are related to Yamana Gold include Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Sibanye Gold (SBGL), Kirkland Lake Gold (KL), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Kinross Gold (KGC), Gold Fields (GFI), Pan American Silver (PAAS), B2Gold (BTG), Alamos Gold (AGI), First Majestic Silver (AG), NovaGold Resources (NG), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY) and Coeur Mining (CDE).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Yamana Gold investors own include Kinross Gold (KGC), General Electric (GE), First Majestic Silver (AG), Barrick Gold (GOLD), AT&T (T), Intel (INTC), Yamana Gold Inc. (YRI.TO) (YRI), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) and Eldorado Gold (EGO).

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

Yamana Gold's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Pendal Group Limited (0.07%), Bennicas & Associates Inc. (0.04%), Hexavest Inc. (0.02%), OLD National Bancorp IN (0.01%), Fulton Bank N.A. (0.00%) and Brookstone Capital Management (0.00%).

AUY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Hexavest Inc., OLD National Bancorp IN, Fulton Bank N.A., First Hawaiian Bank, and Bennicas & Associates Inc..

AUY stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pendal Group Limited, and Brookstone Capital Management.

Shares of AUY 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.

One share of AUY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $5.23.

Yamana Gold has a market capitalization of $4.98 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 5,091 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]