NYSE:AZN - AstraZeneca Stock Price, Price Target & More

AstraZeneca trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AZN."

AstraZeneca declared a semiannual dividend on Monday, February 5th. Shareholders of record on Friday, February 16th will be given a dividend of $0.95 per share on Monday, March 19th. This represents a yield of 5.62%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 15th. View AstraZeneca's Dividend History.

Shares of AstraZeneca split on the morning of Monday, July 27th 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Friday, June 26th 2015. The newly minted shares were distributed to shareholders after the market closes on Friday, July 24th 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of AstraZeneca stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

AstraZeneca plc (NYSE:AZN) released its quarterly earnings results on Friday, May, 18th. The company reported $0.48 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.28 by $0.20. The business earned $5.18 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $5.24 billion. AstraZeneca had a net margin of 12.61% and a return on equity of 30.73%. The firm's revenue was down 4.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.99 earnings per share. View AstraZeneca's Earnings History.

AstraZeneca is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July, 26th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for AstraZeneca.

AstraZeneca issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Friday, May, 18th. The company provided EPS guidance of $3.30-3.50 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.46.

17 brokers have issued twelve-month target prices for AstraZeneca's shares. Their forecasts range from $35.00 to $42.00. On average, they anticipate AstraZeneca's stock price to reach $38.2833 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 3.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Ratings for AstraZeneca.

17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for AstraZeneca in the last year. There are currently 6 hold ratings and 11 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."

AstraZeneca saw a decrease in short interest in the month of June. As of June 29th, there was short interest totalling 7,144,897 shares, a decrease of 34.8% from the June 15th total of 10,959,514 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,577,564 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.0 days. Approximately 0.3% of the shares of the company are sold short. View AstraZeneca's Current Options Chain.

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Media headlines about AZN stock have trended somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. AstraZeneca earned a news sentiment score of 0.13 on Accern's scale. They also gave news stories about the company an impact score of 47.05 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

AstraZeneca's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.52%), Hardman Johnston Global Advisors LLC (0.05%), Bank of Montreal Can (0.04%), World Asset Management Inc (0.00%), Essex Investment Management Co. LLC (0.00%) and BLB&B Advisors LLC (0.00%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for AstraZeneca.

AZN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including World Asset Management Inc, Daniel Devine & Co, Fulton Bank N.A., Fox Run Management L.L.C., Hardman Johnston Global Advisors LLC, Gofen & Glossberg LLC IL, Atria Investments LLC and Raymond James Trust N.A.. View Insider Buying and Selling for AstraZeneca.

AZN stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fisher Asset Management LLC, Bank of Montreal Can, Essex Investment Management Co. LLC, BLB&B Advisors LLC, FNY Investment Advisers LLC, Catawba Capital Management VA, RDL Financial Inc. and Private Trust Co. NA. View Insider Buying and Selling for AstraZeneca.

Shares of AZN 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of AZN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $37.03.

AstraZeneca has a market capitalization of $94.55 billion and generates $22.47 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $3.00 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.28 on an earnings per share basis. AstraZeneca employs 61,100 workers across the globe.

AstraZeneca's mailing address is 1 FRANCIS CRICK AVENUE CAMBRIDGE BIOMEDICAL CAMPUS, CAMBRIDGE X0, CB2 0AA. The company can be reached via phone at 44-20-3749-5000 or via email at [email protected]