AngloGold Ashanti Plc (NYSE:AU) has a beta value of 0.47 and has seen 1.14 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $24.26B, closed the recent trade at $48.18 per share which meant it gained $0.21 on the day or 0.44% during that session. The AU stock price is -6.08% off its 52-week high price of $51.11 and 53.4% above the 52-week low of $22.45. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 2.54 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 3.72 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that AngloGold Ashanti Plc (AU) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.91. 1 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 3 out of 15 have rated it as a Hold, with 11 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight.
AngloGold Ashanti Plc (NYSE:AU) trade information
Sporting 0.44% in the green today, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the AU stock price touched $48.18 or saw a rise of 1.35%. Year-to-date, AngloGold Ashanti Plc shares have moved 65.85%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 6.55%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of AngloGold Ashanti Plc (NYSE:AU) have changed -1.31%. Short interest in the company has seen 6.68 million shares shorted with days to cover at 2.18.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $52, which means that the shares’ value could jump 7.35% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $52.0 while the price target rests at a high of $52.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -7.93% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -7.93% from the levels at last check today..
AngloGold Ashanti Plc (AU) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 85.45% over the past 6 months.
Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 149.95% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 29.50%.
AU Dividends
AngloGold Ashanti Plc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-May-09 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 1.03 at a share yield of 2.15%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 1.71%.
AngloGold Ashanti Plc (NYSE:AU)’s Major holders
Insiders own 0.18% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 72.58% with a share float percentage of 72.72%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with AngloGold Ashanti Plc having a total of 599.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP with over 22.84 million shares worth more than $573.97 million. As of 2024-06-30, VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP held 5.4166% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, with the holding of over 16.89 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $424.33 million and represent 4.0044% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck Gold Miners ETF and VANGUARD STAR FUNDS-Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund . As of May 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 4.10% shares in the company for having 17.25 shares of worth $828.16 million while later fund manager owns 7.1 shares of worth $341.02 million as of Apr 30, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 1.69% of company’s outstanding stock.
