NYSE:AUYYamana Gold Stock Price, Forecast & News

Yamana Gold's stock was trading at $3.62 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, AUY shares have increased by 45.0% and is now trading at $5.25. 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) posted its earnings results on Thursday, April, 30th. The basic materials company reported $0.05 EPS 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 analysts' expectations of $352.22 million. Yamana Gold had a return on equity of 3.44% and a net margin of 17.61%. The firm's revenue was down 12.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.02 EPS. View Yamana Gold's earnings history.

Yamana Gold declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, May 1st. Investors 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 4.76%. 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 brokers have issued 1 year target prices 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 year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.7%. View analysts' price targets for Yamana Gold.

Press coverage about AUY stock has been trending very negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Yamana Gold earned a news impact score of -3.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the basic materials company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View the latest news aboutYamana Gold.

Yamana Gold saw a increase in short interest in 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 short-interest ratio is currently 0.6 days. Approximately 1.6% of the company's shares are short sold. View Yamana Gold's Current Options Chain.

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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 many different retail and institutional 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, Van ECK Associates Corp, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Two Sigma Investments LP, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Donald Smith & CO. Inc., Toronto Dominion Bank, and A.R.T. Advisors LLC.

AUY stock was acquired 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 CIBC Asset Management Inc.

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 $5.25.

Yamana Gold has a market capitalization of $5.00 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]