During the recent session, AngloGold Ashanti Plc (NYSE:AU)’s traded shares were 1.32 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.50. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $42.68, reflecting an intraday loss of -3.11% or -$1.37. The 52-week high for the AU share is $46.90, that puts it down -9.89 from that peak though still a striking 48.15% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $22.13. The company’s market capitalization is $21.49B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 2.74 million shares, and the average trade volume was 3.22 million shares over the past three months.
AngloGold Ashanti Plc (AU) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.91. AU has a Sell rating from 1 analyst(s) out of 15 analysts who have looked at this stock. 3 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 11 recommend a Buy rating for it.
AngloGold Ashanti Plc (NYSE:AU) trade information
AngloGold Ashanti Plc (AU) registered a -3.11% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -3.11% in intraday trading to $42.68, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -0.47%, and it has moved by 1.23% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 71.96%. The short interest in AngloGold Ashanti Plc (NYSE:AU) is 4.62 million shares and it means that shorts have 1.28 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $31, which implies a decrease of -37.68% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $31 and $31 respectively. As a result, AU is trading at a premium of 27.37% off the target high and 27.37% off the low.
While earnings are projected to return 138.78% in 2025, the next five years will return 25.95% per annum.
AU Dividends
AngloGold Ashanti Plc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-May-08. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for AngloGold Ashanti Plc is 1.03, with the dividend yield indicating at 2.43 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 1.65%.
AngloGold Ashanti Plc (NYSE:AU)’s Major holders
AngloGold Ashanti Plc insiders own 0.18% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 71.94%, with the float percentage being 72.07%. VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP is the largest shareholder of the company, while 606.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 22.84 million shares (or 5.4166% of all shares), a total value of $573.97 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 16.89 million shares, is of VANGUARD GROUP INC’s that is approximately 4.0044% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $424.33 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of AngloGold Ashanti Plc (AU) shares are VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck Gold Miners ETF and VANGUARD STAR FUNDS-Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund . Data provided on Apr 30, 2025 indicates that VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck Gold Miners ETF owns about 17.12 shares. This amounts to just over 4.07 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $731.56 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 7.38, or about 1.75% of the stock, which is worth about $315.16 million.
