Yamana Gold - AUY Stock Forecast, Price & News

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Yamana Gold in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" AUY shares.
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6 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Yamana Gold's shares. Their AUY share price forecasts range from $5.25 to $560.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $68.20 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1,092.3% from the stock's current price.
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Yamana Gold's stock was trading at $5.55 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, AUY stock has increased by 3.1% and is now trading at $5.72.
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Yamana Gold saw a drop in short interest in the month of December. As of December 30th, there was short interest totaling 11,190,000 shares, a drop of 42.9% from the December 15th total of 19,590,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 20,060,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 0.6 days. Currently, 1.2% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 16th 2023.
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Yamana Gold Inc. (NYSE:AUY) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 28th. The basic materials company reported $0.07 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $0.07. The basic materials company had revenue of $452.20 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $464.34 million. Yamana Gold had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 6.03% and a net margin of 13.99%. The company's revenue was up 2.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.10 EPS.

Yamana Gold announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, November 21st. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 30th will be given a dividend of $0.03 per share on Friday, January 13th. This represents a $0.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.10%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 29th.
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Yamana Gold (NYSE:AUY) pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.00%. The dividend payout ratio is 46.16%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, AUY will have a dividend payout ratio of 42.86% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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9 employees have rated Yamana Gold Chief Executive Officer Peter Marrone on Glassdoor.com. Peter Marrone has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Peter Marrone in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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 (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 retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include National Bank of Canada FI (0.40%), Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. (0.17%), Monaco Asset Management SAM (0.16%), Simplex Trading LLC (0.00%), DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale (0.05%) and Bennicas & Associates Inc. (0.04%).

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One share of AUY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $5.72.

Yamana Gold (NYSE:AUY) has a market capitalization of $5.50 billion and generates $1.82 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $147.50 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.26 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 11,574 workers across the globe.

Yamana Gold's mailing address is ROYAL BANK PLAZA NORTH TOWER 200 BAY STREET SUITE 2200, TORONTO A6, M5J2J3. The official website for the company is www.yamana.com. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at (416) 815-0220, via email at investor@yamana.com, or via fax at 416-815-0021.